Quotes About Adventure

I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.

Going to the Upper East Side is like taking a trek to the Himalayas practically.

Katherine Kurtz

The Mouser sighed. The moment had come, he knew, as it always did, when outward circumstances and inner urges commanded an act, when curiosity and fascination tipped the scale of caution, when the lure of a vision and an adventure became so great and deep-hooking that he must respond to it or have his inmost self-respect eaten away.

I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path—cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.

Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one's body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity. Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world. In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe." ~ Frosty Wooldridge

I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.

Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

Gérard de Villiers

What is your urgent business, Sir Archie?" the king asked. "A lady is in the case, I warrant me. Whenever a young knight has urgent business, be sure that a lady is in question.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Fairy Tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.

If I've stayed longer than 4–5 days in any one place, I long to get on the move again.

there is such excitement about the life that when one has once taken it up it is seldom indeed that one changes it,

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Memento Audere Semper

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.

Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

Have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.