Quotes About Adventure

Being a witch meant going into places you didn't want to go.

They saw that the perfect world is a journey, not a place.

They want dancing girls! They want thrills! They want elephants! They want people falling off roofs! They want dreams! The world is full of little people with big dreams!

A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves.

The desert wasn't mappable. It ate map-makers.

I could use you—if you pass the tests, of course. There are three of them. You have passed the first. What are the other— Hrun paused, his lips moved soundlessly and then he hazarded, two?

There are now, to the delight of parasitical writers like me, what I might almost call "public domain" plot items. There are dragons, and magic users, and far horizons, and quests, and items of power, and weird cities. There's the kind of scenery that we would have had on earth if only God had had the money.

If he went over the falls now, he might get to the bottom before they did. That wasn't a good sentence, however he tried it.

If you're too afraid of going astray you won't go anywhere

Dosflores era un turista, el primero del Mundodisco. Según decidió Rincewind, turista significaba «imbécil».

There is a phrase neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring. This thing was all of them, plus some other bits of beasts unknown to science or nightmare or even kebab. There was certainly some red, and a lot of flapping, and Nutt was sure he caught a glimpse of an enormous sandal...

Did I have the courage to forge a path

On that same trip, my brother and I camped against a red rock wall and in the morning when we awoke, a boulder had fallen between us.

That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.

We dream our dreams, she thought, and sometimes they take us places we never anticipate.

Then she turned to follow them, and the three demon hunters walked together down the hill.

Only animals should have to pee in the woods.

How did Elliot die? You said it happened six years ago." "Yeah, the kid got it in his fool head to go to Africa. He wanted to see the animals before they got wiped out by hunters like me. Interpol says he met a couple of girls in Cape Town, and the three of them flew off to Botswana for a safari." "And what happened?" O'Brien drained his whiskey glass and looked at her. "They were never seen again.

There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected—something amazing—could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.

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Ha volna idÅ'm és merészelnék ennyire eltérni a tárgytól, írnék egy külön fejezetet az elsÅ' kancsó sörrÅ'l, amelyet angol földön iszik meg az ember. Ó, milyen jól esik! Érdemes elmenni egy esztendÅ're hazulról, csak azért, hogy ezt az elsÅ' kortyot élvezzük.

Überhaupt ohne Leichtsinn ist das ganze Leben keinen Schuss Pulver wert. (S.109)

We don't get into mischief," said Mary indignantly. "It sort of happens to us, or around us, or in our general vicinity.

She had wandered the streets of Vienna and Budapest. No wonder she felt different. Perhaps travel did that to you. Mary had come home, but she was not the same Mary who had left—not quite.