Quotes About Adventure

Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

There was a movie called 'Hawk the Slayer' when I was a kid. I think only three people saw it, but me and my brother saw it. I remember when I was a kid thinking that's kind of cool. It was just this sort of action adventure-y sort of thing.

One of the first shows I ever did was 'Laverne & Shirley.' I played this sleazy guy that came into town with a friend and was going to date Laverne and Shirley, but we really wanted to get into the bowling alley because it was next to the bank we wanted to rob.

I can be out very, very late at night because I don't require that much sleep.

I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.

I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

I always had a phobia of heights, but since I've been flying more regularly I have no problem with it now. I just go to sleep.

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

We sleep very well in space. We have a sleeping bag each, and when you get into it, you float in the sleeping bag.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.

When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it.

Give me the new thing and give it to me now. I don't want that old thing - I've seen it, heard it, bought it, slept with it, loved it, but now I'm bored with the old thing and I'm gagging for the new stuff.

Whether you are planning a safari, doing a homework assignment on Botswana, or promoting your local business, Street View will allow you to experience a slice of the country.

I would let climbing slide away if I had to maintain my relationship with my family. Because it really is the big adventure.

I've never been on a water slide in my life.

I don't really play a lot of slide in general, but it was fun getting into that style and exploring it.

I wanted to be a stuntman first, and I used to pretend to be Indiana Jones and jump off roofs and slide under garage doors. I was 29 at the time.

I tend to pick objectives that I feel are safe because I know that, in the moment, I always go for it. I have some rules for myself, though: Look for the rock faces without a lot of loose rock. Always rope up on glaciers where there is even a slight chance of falling into a crevasse. No pure free soloing. Never climb below hanging glaciers.

The slightest thing can ruin a scene, but you must be willing to take chances.

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.

Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.