When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don’t know.

I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I don’t know about the 2026 World Cup. But I would love to see Anirudh Thapa sending a cross to Jhingan and I would love to watch it from the stands.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

I love trying new things.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Right after the draft, when I came out to Oakland, there was a press conference and a dinner with the owner, GM, and Coach Nelson. We did some sightseeing and some house searching the next day, but to be honest, I had no idea what I was doing. I tried to find a spot close to our gym, because I figured that’s where I’d spend most of my time.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world’s diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.