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Quotes About Adventure

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
~ Guillermo del Toro
The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.
~ Saskia de Brauw
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
~ Pico Iyer
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.
~ Sara Sheridan
I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.
~ Gloria Whelan, See What I See
When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away
~ Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?
~ Lesley Howarth, MapHead: No.2
Let our road be long, let it be very long, let it be very very long and in fact let our road be infinite! Travel means flow, flow means life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
~ Henry James
Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world bigger.
~ Julian Smith
Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.
~ Michael Scott
No one should be required to see America for the first time.
~ Ashley Montagu
I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.
~ Michelle Rodriguez
People who travel are always fugitives.
~ Daphne du Maurier
But I should like to take these things on full gallop, instead of dawdling along gaping at them. I get fearfully tired, and a very little Abbey goes a long way with me.
~ Susan Hale
The more you travel, the more well-off youll be, I think.
~ RJ Mitte
At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.
~ Henry Rollins
Travel definitely affects me as a writer.
~ Anthony Doerr
I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself.
~ Joni Mitchell
Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them
~ William Carlos Williams
I like to travel and connect.
~ Richard Powers