Quotes About Adventurous

I was a full-blown tomboy; I was very mischievous and got into a lot of trouble. Everybody in my family smoked, and I started smoking probably when I was nine. My friends used to call me Huckleberry Tig.

Growing up with three older brothers, I was destined to be a tomboy.

I'm a tomboy naturally; I grew up hanging up with boys.

I had a bit of a reputation as a tomboy.

I was a huge tomboy when I was younger.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything - why can't I?

I'm a little bit of a gypsy myself. I've always had jobs where I'm moving around and I'm not sure what's going to happen tomorrow or the next day.

I'm a great believer in trying things, so I've eaten witchetty grubs, a mountain frog, ostrich and alligator. I like tongue, I like brains and tripe.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

I'll read a recipe but then decide, 'Well, it's sort of like this, then.' Or I'll go to the fridge and think, 'I'll see what I can put together,' and I'll combine beetroot and sausage and prawns with goat's cheese sprinkled on top and think, 'I like that they're all slightly pink. It looks fine and... actually, it is fine.'

After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.

Can you believe him? I think the boy has lost his goddamn mind. Who the fuck plays tug with a crocodile?

I've literally become comfortable with approaching whatever style of music at any time.

Brave and anal: the ideal space explorer. Though you don't find "anal" on any of those lists of recommended astronaut attributes. NASA doesn't really use words like anal. Unless they have to.

Mir astronaut Jerry Linenger writes in his memoir that he was surprised to find a bottle of cognac in one arm of his spacesuit and a bottle of whiskey in the other. (Linenger was the Frank Burns of space exploration:

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

Prepared Imaginative Good at listening Powerful Humorous Adventurous Self-assured Intuitive Loyal Persistent Goal-Oriented Courageous Determined Committed Self-affirming Resilient Genuine Aware of my talents Responsible Passionate Positive Creative Playful Independent Optimistic Caring

Gagarin had just flown around the world. Now he needed a horse and cart. To those familiar with only slightly later TV footage of NASA spacecraft returning to earth [...] Gagarin's return is in a league of its own, an exercise of the surreal with a uniquely Russian twist.

Sam told me as we were hanging up our coats that Bob was "baked like a fucking cake." I really had to quote that one even though it has a swear.

I LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it

Ce n'était pas un homme ni un pilote comme les autres. Il portait sur lui le reflet des éléments, de l'espace. Il semblait oint par l'huile et poudré par le pollen du monde.

The '60s were a remarkable time because several things were happening at once. Men were leaving planet Earth, kids were breaking into the television age, and I was able to see Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.