Quotes About Adventure

Playing it safe can be dangerous. Or the greatest risk sometimes is not to take a risk.

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

No sneak previews. Except this one. You'll see me again soon. When the Pandora box opens.-River, Doctor Who

My hero! Thanks... everything I open turns into a big mess. I'm Pandora.

The tides run, the sun sets, the night passes, and in the morning, just at dawn, the islands come into view again as they did for Cook so long ago, a fresher green breast of the new world than ever the old Atlantic sailors saw, and still a place of gentle, beckoning beauty.

Rock climbers and long-distance ocean swimmers will tell you it isn't the mountain or the water that kills - it is panic

Christopher Columbus should have set out to discover America with a boatload of madmen.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

If you hold on to the handle, she said, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.

I spent a long time trying to find my center until I looked closely at it one night & found it had wheels and moved easily in the slightest breeze. So now I spend less time sitting and more time sailing.

feels like some kind of ride but it's turning out just to be life going absolutely perfectly

Start here & go until you die, he said. What's so complicated about that?

She waved at all the people on the train & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life.

I still fly a lot in my dreams, she told us, but I try to stay close to the ground. At my age, a fall can be pretty serious.

What could go wrong? I said & she shook her head. I thought you had more imagination than that, she said. —Fertile Imagination

I've got three days available in July next year, she said. So, are we going to do this thing or not? —Calendar Girl

They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday.

There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.

I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat.

Speed runs, Skywalker. Speed runs.