Quotes About Adventure

IT'S GOING TO GET SALT-AND-PEPPERED! AND … KETCHUP'D!!!

ESCAPE FROM FARTY HARBOUR!!

fear of his little sister's safety. "Don't go too near the water!" Ruby stood up. She was, in fact, standing right by the water. In quite a lot of mud. "I'm just trying to catch— Oh!" she said. She'd been about to say – and this may be obvious – "Spock". She'd been leaning over the river, trying to catch Spock.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.

It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between...This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something -- you just have to want to learn its rhythm.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

We ran for the forest, crashing through the stalks of wheat, beneath the rising moon and the stars spinning farther and farther away, alone beneath the godless sky.

This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.

He had merely been taking refuge in the outward adventure in order to avoid the clash and tension of the adventure proceeding inexorably within.

It isn't funny," said Ben. "I just don't like open water. Not to swim in." Yron crooked a finger and reluctantly Ben waded out the yard or so to him and the log. "I'll let you into a secret," said Yron. "You won't need to swim." "No?" Ben's face brightened. "No. When the croc grabs you, you don't get the chance.

Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.

Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome.

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

I am willing to taste any drink once.

And thus, the Fairy leading, they came at last to a tall hedge wherein were a hundred wickets, all being closed; and those who had passed the Foolish Prince disputed before the hedge and measured the hundred wickets with thirty-nine articles and with a variety of instruments, and each man entered at his chosen wicket, and a butterfly went before him; but no man returned into the open country.

Adventure and excitement are the two things missing from civilization. Danger keeps you on your toes. You'll never feel as alive as when death is over your shoulder.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Luck and Joy and Grief and I Set off together into the world of existence Luck lay down and Joy ran off But Grief and I go wandering on.

James Buckley Jr.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.

I love short trips to New York to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.