Quotes About Adventure

HUMPHREY'S TOP SECRET SCRIBBLES Sometimes you have to LOOK-LOOK-LOOK To find the very perfect book.

Betty G. Birney

and not in my poo corner),

Gail giggled. Mrs. Brisbane

Betty G. Birney

And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground.

The world was hers for the reading.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents' Night.

There were undoubtedly worse things than being an unmarried woman in charge of her own life, free to come and go as she pleased, free to explore pleasure.

Pirate thoughts.

Sheriff, I'm wanted everywhere—but not by the law.

Jake's mustache

Las sergas de Esplandian,

Black Spaniard by the name of Estabanico. He,

Jim Beckwourth,

Why do you want to marry me?" "Because I want this adventure we're on to continue. Because you fill my heart. Because I want you to have that garden.

They began swinging high and higher as the sky opened its arms wide.

I held the letter—a window to another world. Did I dare open it?

I think. I remember the very first occupation I wanted to be -- when, I think, I was about six years old -- was an archeologist. I would like to point out this was before Indiana Jones. It's a point of pride. Then I wanted to be an astronaut. By the time I was in my high school years, I wanted to be a physicist and then by the time I got to college I wanted to be a computer programmer. That's actually what I studied in school and that's what has led me along the path I'm on.

We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.