experience Quotes

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.

Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.'

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

My father's an early aviator, and my first flight was with him at age two. Now, despite the fact that I got sick on the flight, I still enjoyed it, I believe.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.