Quotes About Adventure

I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.

Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing.

Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement.

I don't think, to be a traveler, you have to reject setting roots up.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.

'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.

I feel like 'Travelers' is something I can legitimately say, 'You're going to love this.' I think then people will accept me as a different thing. And if they don't, it's fun trying.

I love traveling and touring, but I have to bring the little things that make me feel at home.

I feel traveling certainly does broaden the mind. In my case certainly I feel more confident. It gives you a new perspective on the world.

I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they've left me.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

It's totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being able to enjoy the cities I'm in.

You're traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.

The true test of a relationship is traveling together.

You can't separate the people from the places - although I sometimes like traveling in places where there are no people.

Exploring is one of my favorite things to do, but I don't really want to be in a tour group. I like doing it alone or with whomever I'm traveling with.

I love to eat internationally and do eating contests everywhere. Traveling around, meeting people, and doing different things.

I've been traveling around the world forever.

When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.