Exploratorium Quotes & Sayings

I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is. — Joe Rogan

The first person you have to resurrect is yourself — The RZA

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much — Stephen King

For the entire history of humanity, we have stared into fires, hypnotized by the twitch and flow of the blues and yellows. We see the stars of alien skies reflected in the coals and divine messages in the dance of the flames. Fire is magic. — Lance Conrad

School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts? — Ray Bradbury

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all. — Charlotte Rampling

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better. — Elizabeth Bowen

The one luxury that I'll never give up is men. — Carolyn Roehme

Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying. — Alexa Vega

The morning after I heard the gospel, however, I woke up with what felt like a hangover. Little would I know it was of the spiritual kind that accompanies the inevitable dawn of realization that life is not perhaps, what we previously thought it was. And we cannot go back to pretending. What a headache to be caught in that liminal space! Literally. — Carolyn Weber

Laura, that dress is not suitable for today, I'm afraid. It's only a small dinner party," I said, hastily stuffing it into the abyss of her wardrobe in exchange for a simple, undecorated blue dress, which would, as Laura passionately claimed, "accentuate her sapphire orbs so Mr. Edwards could not look away." I sincerely hoped she meant her eyes. — Tarun Shanker