Quotes About Adventure

We almost owe it to ourselves to go experiment in the consumer area.

I owe a lot to playing on the street. And what was even better than playing on the street was playing football with my friends in the local graveyard. It was fantastic. We forgot what the time was and didn't even go home for our meals.

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

Before I started WeWork, I owned a baby clothing company based in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

The first car I ever owned was an Italian sports car, a convertible, and I've kind of owned everything under the sun since then.

After 28 years of owning boats, I'm over it.

I met my wife in Oxford, fell in love with her, and followed her to New York. I was an illegal there for the first few years, until we got married, so I ended up doing lots of interesting jobs, some for a few days, some for a few months.

If you ever really want to get away from it all and see something that you have never seen, and have an excellent chance of seeing something no one has ever seen, get in a sub. You climb in, seal the hatch, turn on a little oxygen, turn on the scrubber, which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard. Down you go.

Edgar Rice Burroughs taught me pace and gave me a sense of action and adventure.

I like the whole Pacific Northwest.

Seaplanes are like the taxis of the Pacific Northwest.

Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12.

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.

At some point, we have to move away from the pack to take certain journeys on our own.

When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

I travel as light as possible and usually pack in less than a minute. If I'm going somewhere hot, I throw in some flip-flops, T-shirts and shorts - but I still pack clothes that I never use.

A lot of things in my life changed, but I'm still a party animal. I'm leading the pack.

I always followed my heart and if my heart said I gotta pack up and go, I'm gone.

I don't limit myself. I think that's what this lifestyle allows for you - freedom to sort of do more than the average housewife. The average housewife can't pack up with her husband and go off to Europe for a tour, 'cause usually the average housewife's husband won't let her go.

Like you don't watch 'Octopussy' or any Bond film for the story. You see it for the smart lines, the glamour, the overall package.