Quotes About Adventure

And this was all getting a bit steampunk for my liking. If Jacob Astor turned out to be wearing goggles it was going to go very hard on him indeed.

So into the woods we went—it was surprisingly noisy. Especially one loud bird whose chirping sounded far too cheerful for the middle of the night.

How many fools have looked forward to the adventure that killed them.

The daily mantra of these single-minded individuals – that 'the sea is there to be swum in, and must be conquered' – is one that is frequently adopted by any Brits on holiday in the UK. Well, for the first day of the holiday, anyway. C

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

Not baked goods! BAKED BADS!!!!" --The Tick

One of the pleasures of being an actor is that it takes you places you wouldn't ordinarily go, and you don't enter as a tourist, you really enter the life of the place. You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented.

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

Well, then I spent three days in the Field Museum, eyeing the exhibits. Can you beat it? I walk around and walk around rubbering at mummies and bones and—well, I ain't kiddin', but they was among the three most interesting days I ever put in.

I dropped out of high school to pursue a self-designed study program in excessively loud heavy metal music and extreme partying. - From his blog

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

Jens was small with a long fair mustache. Winter was enormous, roughly the size of a large door. I called them Asterix and Obelix. We got on frightfully well.

In a word, adventure to Chapman is the breath of life. Given adventure he has the courage to achieve the unbelievable.

true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Montagu and Cholmondeley took turns lying in the back and trying to sleep, as if that were possible when being driven at high speed by a myopic Grand Prix driver with no headlights. This was the closest either came to death in action during the war

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

we had both been eager for a change from the Cambridge and Wellesley scene, and for the chance to live in California.

To experience, to engage, to endeavor, rather than to watch and to wonder — that's where the real meat of life is to be found.

Life is for living.

Let's make one perfect day. And if it feels right, let's make another one tomorrow.

I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

press-ganged', 'taking the wind out of your sails', 'shot across the bows', 'loose cannon', 'shipshape', 'batten down the hatches' belong more obviously to the sea. Others such as 'close quarters', 'cut and run', 'fathoming' something, 'broad in the beam' and the 'cut of your jib' take a moment

How strange it must be, thought Tortoise looking out to sea, to have no edge to one's world. We have a beach; we know the shape of our island and just how far we can go. But Turtle can swim away in any direction and keep going -- her world has no limits, no ending. She can, if she chooses, swim on forever and ever and ever.