Quotes About Adventure

I took Al Unser out on a Hobie the day before he became the first auto racer to go 200 mph around a closed-circuit track. We were only going about 18 mph, and you should have seen him hanging on for dear life.

I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.

Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can at least travel their beaten track more quickly than they could while they were clearing the way: and so before his race is run, he comes to virgin forest and becomes himself a pioneer.

I've been to more racetracks than any other person I've met. Almost every track, missing only a few of the newer ones.

I'm a 'what's next?' guy. I don't know what that is, but I'm excited to find out and put the same kind of energy into it as I put into track.

Luxembourg has a track record of being successful when it takes risks. You need to take on risks to be successful.

All these tracks you have memories at, all of them, Daytona included.

We've sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we've never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.

I love racing and I've always enjoyed racing. I love to try and go back to the local short tracks and do those races. And sometimes I do.

I'd say the late 70s were probably pretty cool. Obviously the cars weren't safe and the tracks weren't safe and all that stuff, but I think back then it was more about the driver.

I love Land Rover Defenders. I love 'em. I love the old 90 Defender; it's my favorite car. I just see one - even the 110 - but if I just see one of those things parked, I just stop in my tracks every time.

I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.

Freedom to tell any story I want, with all the imaginary tools of my trade, is why I love writing novels. I love taking an idea, fleshing it out into a new world - and going on adventures with characters who day-dream themselves into existence and take on lives of their own.

The 10 or 20 minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic; there is no adventure I would have traded them for.

I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.

The rollercoaster has its ups and downs, loops and twists but enjoy the ride. We are all on it together.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together.

I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

Together we all live every moment On the very brink; The razor's edge Of ecstasy or disaster.