Quotes About Exploration

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.

I'm starting to feel like I can actually figure out how stuff works. I can actually pick stuff apart and have a chance of fixing it.

If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags.

Science doesn't have flags. Science doesn't have borders.

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

If China were to explode, I'd want to be there in a flash. If there's a big story, I want to be there.

I am the best hope to prove the Flat Earth.

Now, I am not saying that the world is flat, but it could be.

You think 24-7 when you're a creative person. And I find pleasure in everything - if I'm in a flea market, I'm there on my downtime, but I'm also there searching for the collection. I don't separate the two.

I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.

I think there's a reason to go off and do something and experiment - splinter off and do something different. It keeps the nucleus of Fleetwood Mac fresh.

I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

We thought our careers as cosmonauts - we were young then - would end with a flight to Mars. But, you see, life has made some course corrections.

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

I was the most emotional of the flight directors. Space really got me all honked up.

I have no misgivings about using a flight computer.

We created out own little world when we were kids and that's what's so special about Donegal. You can create whatever you imagine here. There's so much nature to let your imagination take flight.

After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored.

I have a lot of downtime in airports and on flights.

I travel on 150 flights a year; I am everywhere.

There are so many ideas that you just come up with on a day-to-day basis when you're a writer that it's very difficult to want to go back to an old fling, so to speak.