Quotes About Adventure

Forget about what you are escaping from,' Ã¢â'¬Â he said, quoting an old maxim of Kornblum's. " Ã¢â'¬ËœReserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.' 

To slip, like the Escapist, free of the entangling chain of reality and the straitjacket of physical laws.

adventures befall the unadventuresome as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold.

Never worry about what you're escaping from, he said. Worry about what you're escaping to.

It was awful luck that my pot-hobbled spermatozoa had managed to rally themselves for one last mad fallopian adventure, and that five years' worth of love, good companionship, and the exhilaration of sneaking around should come in the end to a referendum on my fitness as a father, but there it was.

Bird of Wide Experience I

male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.

Although it was only nine o'clock he had already gone once around the pharmacological wheel to which he'd strapped himself for the evening, stolen a tuba, and offended a transvestite; and now his companions were beginning, with delight and aplomb, to barf. It was definitely a Crabtree kind of night.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. The

The special-order French bees were prey to wanderlust and ennui. But

explorers invariably give their names to the places that haunt or kill them.

The wind of righteous adventure that had begun to sweep through the square subsided as this secret captain and master of the accumulated lore of soldierly skepticism began to explain that any king who controlled both the treasury and the army was, in the eyes of the world, legitimate, and that while no one could know the mind of God, the Almighty had in the past shown a marked tendency, in his view, to ratify public opinion.

A Coyote game of paths and chances.

hot-water tanks, lashed to one another with straps of steel like comrades in a doomed adventure.

Everybody's got a cage that keeps out the sharks. Those who open the door and venture out do so at their own risk.

the future sparkled in front of them like an ocean.

a tunnel entrance.

Let me tell you something, Mr. L.A. I've been to a place where it doesn't matter what they do to you, where nothing can hurt you. I've been there and back." "Everybody's been to Disneyland, so what?

hang out on the surf beaches even though I didn't know how to surf.

He took the 101 out to the Valley and then the 405 north to the 118 and west. He got off in Chatsworth and drove into the rocky bluffs at the top corner of the Valley.

Lewis and Clarke. Why hadn't she said

Out of the blue and into the black. That's what he said going on a tunnel mission was. We called it the black echo.

Cómo? —Vamos a subir por la pared y nos meteremos en un túnel que nos llevará hasta el ascensor. —Me dan miedo los túneles. —No tienes que asustarte, Jodie. Yo estaré

and into Malibu Canyon to the Saddle Peak