Quotes About Adventure

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

With no finish line, no referees, no one right way to do it, hiking is perhaps the quintessential sport for anarchists.

The outdoors is one of the safest places you can be--provided that you've got a little bit of know-how and a lot of common sense.

Journey is the reward

All we had were maps that said "unsurveyed.

Then we started reading books, and would go out and pretend what we had read about, emulating some hero or heroine.

It's okay. You aren't my type. What's your type? Someone who gets into less trouble.

This was Dante's. Crazy was what we had for breakfast when we ran out of Corn Flakes

Any day that starts off in a demon-filled bar in a casino designed to look like Hell isn't likely to turn out well.

I'm like the master. I like to walk on the wild side." It took me a moment to realize what he meant. "I am not the wild side," I told him flatly. "I'm about as far from the wild side as it's possible to get.

Do you always get in this much trouble?" Pritkin asked from behind me. "Mostly," I breathed. "You know, I've noticed that about you," he told me. And then he kissed me.

thought they might have wondered off somewhere.

Think you can maybe not die for five minutes?" "I'll try,"I told him seriously. "You know, if anyone else said that, it would be funny.

We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

When you become a streetwalker, you don't write home very much.

It was a fine country, or would be, different from any she had known. But if it was the promised land, it was not because of the trees or climate, but because, just getting here, they'd found something new inside themselves.

Soldier, you ready to head out?" "Yes, sir." "Flashlight? Pocket knife? Compass?" "Check." "Clean white shirt? Success loves preparation. You never know when a clean shirt will be needed.

Don't you think that's the beauty of a book? It can take you places you can't visit on your own, lets you meet people and see things you can't in real life.

For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event." ... "Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden

Excitement is never comfortable. When it comes, you just hang on and hope you don't fall off.

If you ever find yourself presented with a fork in the road of life and you do not know the correct direction, close your eyes and listen to your heart. I have found more adventure, more love, more happiness, and more life by listening to who I am, rather than attempting to tell myself.

Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the jagged rocks of did-nothing. Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomand to her three wee granddaughters one cold evening

Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.

Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, it was great to be her, starring in her own true-life adventure.