Quotes about Exploration

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out.

That's all we do, isn't it—look at things and try new drinks?

He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know

Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.

I think the exploration and the search for who Jesus is, and that 2,000 years later we're still trying to figure out who He was, and did He really rise from the dead... And I think for me, the answer is 'yes,' and that's why we're talking about Him today.