Quotes About Exploration

I actually like seeing how the world - trying to figure out how the world works, how it all fits together. Also, it makes me happy when I feel like things are consistent, when there's some sort of order to the universe.

Most of the time I approach a track as series of experiments: seeing what fits, and trying to manipulate sounds into each other so they have some kind of dialogue, and then start building a structure around it.

I don't think I've ever really fitted into the industry and the scene. I feel like I've always been on the cusp.

I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

I spent three years working at the White House and wanted to do something that wasn't about passing bills and resolutions.

I went cage diving in South Africa with Great Whites, and that was fun. Sweden was cool.

Not all those who wander are lost.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

Archaeology holds all the keys to understanding who we are and where we come from.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

When I turned 50, I asked some of my girlfriends, all actresses of the same age, 'What are we going to do now?' I wanted to go live somewhere for a while, learn archaeology, or take part in healing the world on some level. I wanted to dig deep and say, 'Who am I now? What do I have to offer? What do I have to learn?'

I think you will find that a lot of young African-Americans are really searching for, 'Who am I?' and 'Where did I come from?' and 'What is my past?'

Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'

I guess I was just always one of those guys who asked those fundamental questions: 'Who am I? What's this for? Why? What does this mean? Is this real?' All these pretty basic questions. I like making movies about people who are self-conscious in that way, and are trying to feel their way through the world.

Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!

I love science fiction, and one of the things I love about it is that it's so very different. You can read stuff that's just fast-paced adventure, and the characters are cardboard, but who cares, because they're heroes, and we love it. And you can read stuff that's really deep character, and everything in between.

I play like I always used to, with no agenda. And, every once in a while, I will play something I really hadn't thought about or even intended to play. And I'll go, 'Whoa! What was that?'

I train with whoever I can, all different sizes, shapes, and styles.

Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is you want to be and do whatever it is you want to do, and nobody's really going to ask you a lot of questions about it.