Rick Tumlinson Quotes

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.

As a child, I spent a lot of time wandering around the prairies and in the hills, and there was a sense that it was such a wide-open space, and there was kind of a feeling of potential. I could imagine anything happening there.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

Space is a canvas, as large and blank as any ever created, for it is indeed creation itself, and it calls to us to paint upon it with our own dreams and imaginations anything we wish, anything we want, and anything we can imagine.

I love to travel. During normal workdays, sometimes it feels like I have to bludgeon ideas out of my soul - but when I'm traveling, relaxed and unpressured, the ideas just spill out.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

I just want pieces of the world.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.

I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is NOT the limit. Beyond the universe is.

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.

When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.