Quotes About Exploration

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'

I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.

I just kept throwing out two or three major ideas, and then that was pretty much right when Tom Phillips came to me asking about the commentary idea and I ended up jumping into that, went down a rabbit hole I never expected.

I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'

Housed within a woman, the doctor thought, were rooms of undisclosed shapes and sizes, and a woman may live a life and never open but two or three, and live within them quite happily. But there were those who twisted and turned within the windy stairwells of their selves, opening doors to rooms and peering in upon possible worlds unmatched in the exterior.

When the hydra manipulates our loyalties, let's recognize the tactic. We might explore how the networks of a previous era, bent on personal enrichment, deliberately invented and kept enflaming the same identity categories we fixate on today. We might explore how those outside our camp, and their ancestors, were mauled too.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place . . . If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace.

Geim's perspective, blunt as you like, is that it's "better to be wrong than be boring," so he lets those working on the FNEs stay free enough to take risks and, inevitably, fail.16

Well madam, I will tell you one thing. You must listen. You are back in India for a good shaking. Here you will dance with death and be reborn. You will be a chameleon of karma and there are many guides to show you the way. You will search India's land of gods and find faith

If you go to Paris, you won't find Paris; you'll find yourself in Paris. Ditto anywhere else. You might as well stay home.

It's impossible to fail if one doesn't know how the end should look. And it's impossible to succeed. But it's possible to enjoy.

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.

There ain't much to be said about walking across Kekropia aside from the boredom of it.

When she was reading, she didn't just leave her own life behind, she stepped into someone else's.

If you don't push yourself to do the things that scare you, how will you ever find out if there's more to life than the one you're living?

A book can't take the place of a man!» «I disagree. A book can give you most things a relationship can. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can transport you to different worlds and teach you things. You can even take it out to dinner. And if bores you, you can move on. Which is pretty much what happens in real life.»

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

The importance of knowing nothing is underrated.

I am interested, in this book, in examining the phenomenon of overstating harm where it begins in its earlier stage as Conflict, before it escalates and explodes into tragedy.

Art is not supposed to repeat what you already know. It is supposed to ask questions.