Quotes About Adventure

life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell.

Periodically someone would encourage her to walk through the woods or try out the mountain bike. Stevie viewed these offers with grave suspicion and declined.

Stevie packed like someone who just heard that reports of the monster were true, and it was headed toward the city.

Yeah," Nate said. "I guess it would be like that if I could go somewhere in a book. I always wanted stories to be real, so I started writing my own. That seemed to make it more real.

I kind of love it," Nate said, looking around. "It looks like the moisture farm that Luke Skywalker lives on.

Sometimes you have to leave the fucking Shire, Frodo.

Stevie swept her light around, steering it away from a terrifying crack in the side, and then aimed it squarely forward. I'm going to the end, she said. Seriously? Nate said. This is what I came here for. My dragons are down there. Stevie, I wouldn't ... You're not me, Stevie said. If I die, avenge me. She was joking, but not totally. She had to go, and it also felt like a possible mistake. Some mistakes you have to make.

Campers screamed when they swam and played and sometimes simply for the sake of screaming.

The spaces were wide and wild. And for the first time since this started, she felt a real sense of the danger here.

There I was, creeping down the sweet garbage alley to break into the restaurant….

I heard about her from one of the top librarians at the public library, this girl from Avenue A who read Greek and slipped into one of the rare books rooms three times. They said she was trouble, but good trouble. Good trouble.

Falling down a hole is easy. Everyone should try it. You just let the ground go away and allow gravity to do its thing.

Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.

The sweatpants and long-sleeved shirt has an ominous ring to Stevie, hinting at activities in wild places where protection would be needed, or maybe at night to go raccoon-poking

In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you have known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe. No child is afraid of nature; it is your fear of men that will vanish, the fear that has stunted your soul, the fear you acquired in your early encounters with the incomprehensible, the unpredictable, the contradictory, the arbitrary, the hidden, the faked, the irrational in men.

What Columbus felt when he landed in America, what the astronauts felt when they landed on the moon, is what a child feels when he discovers the earth, between the ages of two and seven.

It has been a day of wonder, this, our first day in the forest.

Nathaniel Taggart had been a penniless adventurer who had come from somewhere in New England and built a railroad across a continent, in the days of the first steel rails. His railroad still stood; his battle to build it had dissolved into a legend, because people preferred not to understand it or to believe it possible.

So much is still to be learned! So long a road lies before us, and what care we if we must travel it alone!

When I look at the ocean, I feel the greatness of man. I think of man's magnificent capacity that created this ship to conquer all that senseless space. When I look at mountain peaks, I think of tunnels and dynamite. When I look at the planets, I think of airplanes.

Imagination and the journey-quest is at the heart of every life well-lived

I left Tehran on June 24, 1997, for the green light that Gatsby once believed in.

That one trip gave me a glimpse of the dizzying freedom of the open road, how vast America was, and how full of wonder.

I was actually doing in my life. I was like a young Walter Mitty; a Don Quixote with no Sancho Panza.