Quotes About Adventure

Strange is it not That of the myriads who before us pass'd the Door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the Road, which to discover, we must travel to.

Fortuna favet fortibus (fortune favors the brave) -mentioned in The Black Book of Secrets

What is life if not a gamble?

The unluckiest man in the world was Youri Gagarin: he left from Russia, revolved seventeen times around the word to fall in Russia again!...

How did I find myself here? Me—the man who wanted to walk around the world? On foot, no less. I wanted to be Passepartout, a traveller with little luggage, hopping from one train to another, a Thomas Cook, an Ibn Battuta. Where is Xanadu?

How did I find myself here? Me—the man who wanted to walk around the world? On foot, no less. I wanted to be Passepartout, a traveller with little luggage, a Thomas Cook, an Ibn Battuta. Where is Xanadu?

As a vamp killer for hire, I travel light.

Dang ninja vamp. Eli

You never know how far you can travel until you start walking.

Have stakes, will travel

That way. 'Second star to the right.' " " 'And straight on till morning,' " Eli finished the quote

Stewart Granger

sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills.

The crucial challenge is to learn how to read critically, analyze data, and formulate ideas—and most of all to enjoy the intellectual adventure enough to be able to do them easily and often.

Oh, if only her daddy could see her right now. What would he think? How would she explain this mess she'd gotten herself into? Wishing on an evening star for her restaurant and getting mixed up in some nefarious dealings. Falling for a prince. Becoming friends with a gator and a firefly along the way.

She mentally ran through the new dishes for that evening, including the new jambalaya, which would be daringly made with pasta instead of the traditional rice. It was a risk to make such a drastic change to one of New Orleans's most beloved dishes, but if she managed to pull this off, T&J's would be the talk of the town! She wouldn't be surprised if people came in from as far as Biloxi, or even Jackson, Mississippi, to try her new recipe.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

But I know as soon as I pack my bags and step off these grounds, I'm going to get swallowed up by that woman you just met.

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Mi casa era como un mar de aguas verdosas que nunca tenían grandes cóleras. Nosotros navegábamos por ellas como piratas pobres que tienen poco ánimo para conquistar ningún botín.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.