Quotes About Adventure

It's true what they say: Time flies when you're having fun.

Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.

Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.

A new enterprise awaits. It hangs before you like fruit on a tree.

By the way, I'm not usually attracted to danger," I said. "Up until now I've led a pretty boring life." "Boredom is good!" Dr. Rasman looked pleased. "Boredom is why God invented books. Are you still in your book club?

Unicorn Island

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you're the one writing it.

Love is like going snorkeling... You go along looking at pretty fish and cool plants until a wave rolls you over a coral reef... then the sharks come.

Chapter breaks are not so readers have a place to stop reading; they're the breath to take before the roller coaster plummets down the hill

Faith means walking on the waters.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Anderswo, morgen, das sind für Sie immer noch magische Worte. Aber sie werden entdecken: anderswo, das ist hier, und morgen haben wir bereits.

Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

No tenía miedo de viajar sola porque era una chica grande, con nada menos que veinte pesos en la cartera...

Nada era difícil una vez decidido, un tren nocturno, un primer barco, otro barco viejo y sucio, la escala en Rynos, la negociación interminable con el capitán de la falúa, la noche en el puente, pegado a las estrellas, el sabor de anís y del carnero, el amanecer entre las islas.

If I were a moviemaker I'd set about hunting sunsets.

Les gustaba desafiar el peligro de no encontrarse.

Ya para entonces me había dado cuenta de que buscar era mi signo, emblema de los que salen de noche sin propósito fijo, razón de los matadores de brújulas.

La técnica consistía en citarse vagamente en un barrio a cierta hora. Les gustaba desafiar el peligro de no encontrarse, de pasar el día solos, enfurruñados en un café o en un banco de plaza, leyendo-un-libro-más.

la literatura y los aviones, qué espléndidas drogas

Umblam fara sa ne cautam, dar stiind ca umblam ca sa ne gasim.