Zahi Hawass Quotes

You never know what your next dig is going to find.

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

I really wanted to discover mummies, like Indiana Jones.

I don't know what's on the other side.

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

This idea of, there's a locked door; how do you open it? You don't necessarily care what's behind it; you're just more excited about opening the lock... It's not about finding the treasure; it's more about defeating the puzzle.

When we were kids, we would just go walking: just walk in a direction and hope that you were gonna find a crashed alien spaceship or buried pirate's treasure or something like that. You never did. You'd find, like, a coyote skeleton, something like that. That was the most exciting thing you'd ever find.

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

The unknown is always interesting.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.