Quotes About Adventure

Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.

When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve.

As a researcher, I look forward to being able to do space science in a space environment.

I love what I do for a living and even if I wasn't getting paid for it I would still pursue an active, outdoors lifestyle, researching animals and looking after them.

Researching and writing about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 was one of the most exciting and involving projects I've undertaken.

I don't sit inside the studio all the time. I travel around researching music.

When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

I appreciate the craft in 'Bioshock' and 'Resident Evil,' and I've played all of them. But I also learned that I don't like playing them because I get really scared.

You can't just shoot your way out of every scenario in 'Resident Evil' games. You have to use your intelligence.

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself.

Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

I believe one shouldn't shut oneself to any possibilities.

One afternoon I decided, with a couple of friends, to eat out. We set out hunting for a good restaurant and couldn't find a single place because everything was shut. Finally we had to have idlis at a place and that too at 5 P. M. I didn't know Goa totally shuts down in the afternoon.

I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.

I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.

You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.