Philip Pullman Quotes

I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.

There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer. These days, it seems like everything is padded and comes with warning labels.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer.

I think the curiosity of mankind, that we want something unknown. Like, 500 years ago, humankind wanted to know what the other side of the ocean is, and it was a very risky project, and then we decided that probably we can fly; let's fly higher. And now we're flying space station, and still it's not enough for us: we want to know what's beyond.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers.

What I love about being a member of KISS is that we're the 'John Glenns' of rock - we always have to be the first in anything we do, and I love that.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.