Quotes About Adventure

I think I was born to sail, and I mean that. So when I set off on my great sailing adventure, it was because I wanted to do it.

There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.

All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.

the lost sequence in a life, they say, is the thing we always search out

Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.

He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light

As we left they told us the old joke. To start a journey in a sandstorm is good luck.

First, he though, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.

those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.

She thrilled to open space and weather nights, as if she could never be contained or fully revealed there.

our way up a narrowing cut. It was a different atmosphere

A writer's mind must never be closed. It's his duty to be curious and my duty to feed the curiosity. Think of it as the start of a big adventure.

The ships slowly picked their way through, guided from patch to patch of open water by the shouts from the crow's nest. Tern, cape pigeon and white petrel flew around the ship. Seals on the ice were so slow to take fright that they were easily bludgeoned on the head and brought on board for food. In the stomach of one of them they found 9 lb of granite stones, which puzzled Ross, as they were a thousand miles from the nearest land.

Die Erebus war nicht zufällig nach dem Gott der Unterwelt benannt, und für die Männer an Bord muss es sich angefühlt haben, als wären sie dort angekommen

Do you see the world as a prison or a playground?

Guidelines for Voyagers and Guides."* The guidelines represent a

It gave us permission to try weird shit in cahoots with other people.

I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was having too much fun to settle down.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

Peter Pan has been one of my dream roles since I was a child.

For years, I have been working on crossing the Grand Canyon. Actually, there is nobody who says 'no,' but since this is a project that comes from me and not a commission, I have to find the money, plan the logistics, etcetera.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.