Quotes About Adventure

Bernie Chowdhury

Go ahead; embark on your journey now—walk the path of Goodness, Life, Law, and Reason.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.

I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them all. The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in.

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.

When sharing your news, you might come across some disgruntled parent-folk. You know, the kind who snort and say ruefully, "If there's anyplace you want to travel to, go now." Don't let them squelch your joy, dear K: these are the kind of people who never went anywhere before they had babies either.

With toddlers around, times are always interesting.

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

I'd never heard of a holy man named after a llama. I'd never heard of a great, gaping vagina. And I didn't know a thing about the black boomerang of karma. all I knew for sure was this: I had been plunked into a strange, perfumed world that, as far as I could tell, seemed to be run entirely by women.

I knew the flight into the crazy skies of love would always outweigh the uncertainty of days that didn't yet belong to me.

When I was a boy, that was all I wanted—to grow a pair of wings and get up into the sky. I had a basement full of failed wing projects. Boards and capes and motors, even a pile of found feathers I once tried to glue together with a bottle of Elmer's; you should have seen your grandmother's face. But I never got any higher than the backyard fence I'd launch from. I never got inside a cloud. Your raven did.

Anna would say that she was a cat like Gemma, with nine lives to spend, all nine precious and delicious.

you make your own adventure in life. And I truly believe that if you open your eyes to your surroundings, there's lots of neat stuff to be found practically anywhere on earth.

I wouldn't want to, say, move to L.A. or New York or some other fast-paced city where there's lots of action and excitement. Here's what I think: you make your own adventure in life. And I truly believe that if you open your eyes to your surroundings, there's lots of neat stuff to be found practically anywhere on earth. For me, the grass is never greener outside of Hawaii. If you ask me my

There's always something to do. Especially if you love the sand and surf like I do. When there are no waves or when I am done surfing I like to pick shells

Pete opened the cellar doors.

I hugged safety close to my chest and kissed risk full on the lips.

Writing, like drugs and recreational sex, becomes an activity associated with youth.

Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked?

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

got dangerously close to my poo corner—something

To the dock!" Kirk replied with a big laugh. "Get it? To the doc!

an excellent reader and was starting a new book that had something to do with pirates and buried treasure. That was interesting to me because I like to bury my treasures (like nuts and other