Quotes About Exploration

I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.

wanted that kind of life even though I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.

Curiosity could be almost as powerful as desire.

Happily we run away from even the brightest and best things in our lives, because we are curious about what else is out there. And what else is out there? Just more of the same, whichever way you look. Whichever way you turn, it's the same life you're facing. It's the same life that's facing you.

The only way to go somewhere new is to do the thing I most fear.

Dreaming Of A Stranger Destinations

The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

I can't begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.

I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there?

I love to move around. I'm not a person who likes to stay in the same place all the time.

Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.

Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.

I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history.

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

This, my children," Alistair said proudly, "was barbecue pork." Dan rapped his fingers against the latch. "Been out in the sun for a long time.