Quotes About Adventure

I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.

I live by the seat of my pants.

Recklessness is par for the course when you're 25.

There are many people who parachute and many people who climb. I'm the only person who does both.

But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?

I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

I'm not a huge risk taker. I think that, for me, I take certain kinds of risks, but if you look at me, you wouldn't say I was a big risk taker. I'm not going to jump out of an airplane and parachute and things like that. That's not really me.

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

I don't particularly want to jump out of an airplane with a parachute if I don't have to. I don't want to go bungee jumping. I like adventure with a real purpose that I can buy into.

Your library is your paradise.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

Africa is a paradise. You meet people who look at life differently. They love the adventure.

Antarctica is a paradise compared to Mars.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

When I was a boy, it was paradise to go hunting with my father.

As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures.

I crave for adventure. It makes me feel alive and excited. It's a constant tussle between what you want to do and other parameters that aren't in your hands.

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

Becoming a parent has changed the risk calculus for me. But it might be age, too, and seeing a lot of friends die in the mountains. Will I take the same risks I took in my 20s? Probably not, but I will always push myself in the mountains.

Parenthood is an adventure.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Paris is such a beautiful city.