Quotes About Exploration

In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.

I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd found it, then it would fade away again.

I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

The actor's life, but also the Australian's life. We're wanderers. We like to walk about - we're curious people. I have felt that since I was a teenager.

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.

Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

I don't think we are the only planet that has life.

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Life is a buzzer box. Poke it.

The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.

Life isn't a puzzle to be solved. It's an adventure to be savored.

Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?

I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.

It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

Life was a storm to wander through.

At the beginning I didn't even really think about making a movie [Dream of Life]. I was just thinking of documenting somebody.

Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.