Quotes About Adventurous

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Troublemaking is just about the only thing I'm good at

Sometimes, it seemed who could do the impossible simply because she didn't stop to think about how impossible it really was.

But then, he's a Smedry. That's virtually a synonym for "insane, foolhardy lunatic.

Bold to the point of recklessness. Brave and brash.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.

With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.

I traveled so much as a child. When I was four, we moved to the Oman in the Middle East. We lived there for three years and I got to explore Oman, as well as many places around there.

I was never an ingenue. I've traveled the globe, I've backpacked through South America, I've done conservation work in Africa. I was never the girl who knew nothing of the world.

I grew up being an artist, but also rock-climbing and traveling the world and teaching my kids.

Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.

If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.

Yes, I'm the crazy person who totally travels with candles.

My brother Steve was always considered the naughty one but I used to drive my parents to despair because I had no fear. Id climb a tree without testing the branches and I was always getting into scrapes.

I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon.

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

I've been accident-prone since I was a kid climbing trees and falling out. I've come off a few motorcycles.

I was always being athletic, climbing trees and running after boys, just being trouble. It was always in me.

I was never one of those little girls who played with baby dolls and picked names for her firstborn. I was playing in the mud with my dog, doing backflips, and climbing trees.

I think every girl has a little bit of rebellion inside. It's always fun to not follow every trend and not be the perfect good girl. It's edgy to be a little rebellious.

I don't follow trends. I set my own and I go for the extreme.