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Quotes About Adventure

It was the egret, flying out of the lemon grove, that started it. I won't pretend I saw it straight away as the conventional herald of adventure, the white stag of the fairy-tale, which, bounding from the enchanted thicket, entices the prince away from his followers, and loses him in the forest where danger threatens with the dusk.
~ Mary Stewart
partly as an expedient for exercising any untried resources of mind.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We returned again, with torches;
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile: a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge, and guided the dogs. We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes, until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Some weeks before this period I had procured a sledge and dogs, and thus traversed the snows with inconceivable speed.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Sometimes I wish I was a cloud... Just floating along, going wherever the breeze takes me.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
I call this one the Ninja Center-fold! ~ Naruto
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Morning, guys!! Today, I wandered a bit from the path of life...
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.
~ Mason Cooley
Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.
~ Mason Cooley
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are
~ Mason Cooley
Reading gives us someplace to go when we must stay where we are.
~ Mason Cooley
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
~ Matsuo Basho
The journey itself is my home.
~ Matsuo Basho
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive, well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, 'Woo-hoo! What a ride.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
I'm great at boats!
~ Matt Fraction
You're gonna miss each and every shot you can't be bothered to take. That's not living life--that's just being a tourist. Take every shot, Kate. If it's worth caring about, no matter how impossible you think it is--you take the shot.
~ Matt Fraction (Author)
The only way to learn is to live.
~ Matt Haig
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?
~ Matt Morris
story of a philosopher who runs when a bear charges him and his friend.
~ Matt Ridley