Quotes About Adventure

We dare to jump so we can see something new. And sometimes we do it to recover a sense of what we once had.

Swimming is the second most popular recreational activity in America, outranked only by walking. But swimming is the one that quite literally takes us out of our element.

When I ask one swimmer, a middle-aged woman named Kate, how she'd characterize the two clubs, she confides that the Dolphin Club is "like living with your parents—we're more conservative. The South End is like the frat house. They're more risky." Standing next to Kate is her friend, a South Ender, who laughs appreciatively at this.)

Some people unpack when they first arrive in a city. Me, I look for Chinatown.

If you stop taking chances, you'll stay where you sit. You won't live any longer, but it'll feel like it.

I hadn't done drugs since sniffing Lady Esquire shoe polish when I was fifteen. I didn't need to. I felt the pinch of wonder.

I want to run, I want to hide, I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside. I want to reach out and touch the plains, Where the streets have no names.

I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters.

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

Some dangers are to be courted--courted and braved as a coy mistress is to be wooed, with all the more vigor as the day makes against us.

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

A charging black rhinoceros is nothing to mess with. When it is headed straight toward you, it is the ultimate exercise in sphincter control. In my case, it was a strange bit of weather that caused one to charge me.

It could be that the hope was in the adventure, the honor in the pursuit, the pride in the doing.

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.

No one's hungry in the first few seconds of a skydive.

I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.

What we are doing here is building a giant rocket ship, and we're going to light the fuse. Then it's either going to go to the moon or leave a giant smoking crater in the ground. Either way I want to be here when it happens.

willingness to try a lot of things and make many mistakes.

Michael hugged Sara tightly. "You all right?" he asked. "Fine," Sara replied. She took off her glasses and wiped them with Michael's handkerchief. "So what have you been up to tonight, my valiant hero?" Michael shrugged. "The usual—saving small children from fires, fighting crime in the streets, getting pawed by your sister." Sara

Let's live on the edge, old friend. That's where all the goodies reside.