Quotes About Adventure

Mountain Songcatchers. I remembered it from the movie O Brother Where Art Thou.

O, wherever men of my sort used to go, long ago. Wandering on paths that other men have not seen. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.

but as a scientist and an explorer I have a duty to bear witness to the Splendours of the World.

Mr. Honeyfoot did not propose going quite so far --indeed he did not wish to go far at all because it was winter and the roads where very shocking.

Those who wander are not necessarily lost.

No, policemen were not danger lovers, they were seekers of the awesome, the incredible, even the unspeakable in human experience. Never mind whether they could interpret, never mind if it was potentially hazardous to the soul. To be there was the thing.

My Great-Grandma G, an avid reader, always said "a good book can take you anywhere you want to go". No need for passports, spending money, or travel insurance. Where are you off to next?

had a lot of living to do!

I wanted him to be a poet. I wanted him to adventure out into the world and learn its ways, not losing himself in the jumble of life but seeing it in the poet's eye, and withdrawing after in the library room where he could write his poems of revelation. He would tell what he had seen. He never wrote a word in his life. But he did see.

One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.

One day I will become an astronaut and play mini golf on the sun. Goodbye papa, goodbye mama. I must continue to be the first little Italian boy in space

So. I'll keep dancing in my costumes. Day and night. And I won't sleep as much as I should. And I will drink more than I should. And maybe, as I'm twirling and glittering, playing a retarded game of hide and seek in the middle of an open field, maybe, just maybe, whatever happens next will be bigger, and I will forget that which seems so huge to me right now.

Pour me another, the future is stunning

The Jet Set Way"

Like fine wine, I do not travel well. Sure, when I was young, fresh, low in acidity and not so tannic, I was a more adventurous spririt.

What the hell was it that people loved so much about the great outdoors? It was just one fatal accident after another waiting to happen.

Not worried about the decor, Brandt. Seriously. Just find us some place where no one you knew from the good old days is going to walk in on us." "The Black Bear Inn it is," Will said (...) "For the record, those weren't the good old days. These days with you, these are the good old days. Right now.

Travel had taught me that the world was something to engage with, not take shelter from.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

My chess rivals were taking lessons, competing at every weekend tournament, while I was on a boat crashing through big waves. But I would come back with new ideas and a full tank of energy and determination. The ocean has always healed me…

Lavender and I have been living in a house of cards, while Smiley Daddy took us to Greece. He

After having served the State of Israel for 36 months, or 154 weeks, or 1,080 days, they exchanged their drabs for denims, beat their munitions into passports, and shipped beyond the sea to find their fortunes. To find themselves, or the selves they'd been, and to forget the commands that bound them.

The Pottery Barn and Rubber Soul had gotten old, but my ability to order more than the chicken fingers with honey mustard from T.G.I. Friday's would always provide me with a sense of accomplishment.

I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know?