Quotes About Adventure

I think the idea is when you're on your death bed to say you did a lot of different, interesting things, not just that you have a more expensive lining in your coffin.

I've been able to do a lot of interesting things.

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

I've been lucky enough to do a lot of very interesting things, and every time, I've been like, 'I want to put everything into this because I want to see how far I can go with it.'

'Castaway' is my favorite movie, and any time I read about a castaway or a story like that, it just interests me a lot.

My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

Books were my Internet, my TV, my movies all rolled into one.

Her time on Twin Moons was really getting off to a great start. She hadn't even been awake for one whole morning and she'd already given a peep show to strangers and eaten a whole bowl full of horny fruit by mistake. What the hell was she going to do tonight?

At least the Château Marmont kept looking as if when you entered a room you might be in Tangiers when you left. But then, my friends are the type who love Tangiers, and I've always been afraid if I went to the actual place, I'd never come back.

You can't write a story about L.A. that doesn't turn around in the middle or get lost

I've been in fast company, as they call it

Jacaranda believed that in the world of airplanes there were only two kinds of luggage—carry-on or lost.

The children began to cry, and Anatole said, "Forget your fears and dry your tears! Does it matter whether we fly the kite, or the kite flies us? Non! The important thing is, we're together. Maman will loop her long sash about you, that you may sit more safely. True, there is danger, but depend upon it — Papa will find a way back to earth, and soon!

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life.

The thing may sound absurd to you, but you can do it if you will: standing back, as it were, from the vague and purposeless reactions in which most men fritter their vital energies. Then you can survey with a certain calm, a certain detachment, your universe and the possibilities of life within it: can discern too, if you be at all inclined to mystical adventure, the stages of the road along which you must pass on your way towards harmony with the Real.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

Andava tão em baixo que tinha perdido a confiança e já sentia o estômago às reviravoltas perante a perspetiva das estradas no Cazaquistão, Mongólia e Sibéria. Quanto a mim, esses três nomes representavam a parte fundamental da nossa aventura e só poderíamos voltar a respirar de alívio quando a tivéssemos ultrapassado.

Vai, amico, libero da fardelli e paure (Go forward, friend, unburdened and unafraid). Requiescant in pace (Rest in peace).

Some quick to arm,some for adventure,some from fear of weakness,some from fear of censure,some for love of slaughter, in imagination,learning later…some in fear, learning love of slaughter;Died some, pro patria,non "dulce" non "et decor"…walked eye-deep in hellbelieving in old men's lies, the unbelievingcame home, home to a lie.