Quotes About Adventure

You see, some people are always longing for the one place that feels right. Then there are those of us who carry our home with us wherever we go. I'm always home.

She never discussed her past in detail, but a few tidbits she'd dropped here and there over the last few months they'd all been hanging together convinced Ronnie and Sissy that the woman hadn't merely lived on the wild side, but instead owned prime real estate there.

That's nothing. To impress a polar bear I met in Switzerland, I once got on two tiny sticks and flew down a snow-covered mountain.

You're actually inside the surfboard... you're inside the landscape around you and the ocean is surging, you get totally inside the moment and it's so intense that time disappears, you disappear.

I love to move around. I'm not a person who likes to stay in the same place all the time.

They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.

I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history.

Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.

Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.

I've always had a soft spot for dreamers – not those who waste their time thinking 'what if' but the ones who look to the sky and say 'why can't I shoot for the moon?'

I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

There's never the same road. It's always, every time it's always a different road.

Okay," I said, clasping her hand. "I swear it. The next time I do something stupid that might get me killed, you can come along.

For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.