Quotes About Adventure

Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true. No?

Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.

as my heart travels west the moon in the sky is my boat

He likes to quote the Sufi poet Rumi: 'Travel leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller', an aphorism also attributed to the Moroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and the next.

Wow. Pioneers with ice-cream." Joshua felt motivated to defend his home. "Well, it doesn't have to be like the Donner Party, Sally-

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville.

It was just beer, women and Spitfires, a bunch of little John Waynes running about the place.

Orsini and one of his fellow conspirators were guillotined, and an accomplice called Carlo di Rudio was transported to Devil's Island, the notorious French prison camp in French Guiana. He escaped and later fought alongside General Custer at Little Big Horn. True to form, he survived.

Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, "The Colbert Report," November 3, 2005

Oh! Susanna, oh, don't you cry for me,I've come from Alabama, with my banjo on my knee.

All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.

And a whole lot of people who go flying with him and his pilots get a taste of real flying, not the airline passenger stuff, which is to flying what masturbation is to sex, merely a pale imitation of the real thing.

Flight is romance—not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

Guys that set off to hike around the world are a dime a dozen in California. Every day in this state women tell divorce judges, "He walked to the corner convenience store for a pack of cigarettes and decided to keep going, all the way around the world, and here is the postcard he sent to let me know.

T. S. Eliot said it: "Old men ought to be explorers.")

Deep in midlife I had begun to feel the awful burden of wanting to be special; wanting to be better; wanting to experience every possible adventure in this life; wanting to be, as we have sometimes said at Kripalu, an "expanded self." Oh, for God's sake. It is just too damned much work to be an expanded self. Couldn't I just be an ordinary self?

As you lay on a summer's day In a cool and shady place, Don't look up into the skies; Instead look down and squint your eyes. Squint your eyes so very tight, And if you wish with all your might, You'll find the land of More-Than-Small. In this land live buggs -- that's all!

As we look around us At our mortal side and sigh Remember a place called Wingsong Then, Lift your Wings and Fly

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.