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Quotes About Adventure

I think I am a travel junkie and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
~ Imtiaz Ali
Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me
~ Elvis Presley
Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.
~ Stephen Hawking
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.
~ David Bowie
I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home.
~ Spalding Gray
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
~ Alan Watts
It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.
~ Stephen A. Schwarzman
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
~ Lord Chesterfield
I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
I love to travel, don't like the getting there 'planes' but love it when I arrive.
~ Danny O'Donoghue
Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.
~ Jonathan Raban
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
~ Cynthia Ozick
It is far easier to travel than to write about it.
~ David Livingstone
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
~ John Steinbeck
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
~ James Agee
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
~ Charles Kuralt
We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).
~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.
~ Krysten Ritter
for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.
~ Helene Deutsch
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
~ Pat Riley