Quotes About Adventure

Life is a gamble and sometimes when you gamble you win.

Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.

One man can go where a group cannot, and manage on very little, particularly a rough adventurer such as he. More the point, he risks only himself when he goes: you much consider that in your charge is an inexpressibly valuable dragon, whose loss must be of greater importance than even this mission. Oh, pray, let us be gone at once, said the inexpressibly valuable dragon, when Laurence had carried the question, still unresolved, back to him. It sounds very exciting to me.

I'm not going to play it safe if you say yes, and I'm not going to do anything dumb if you say no." "What you mean is, you'll do an enormous number of truly stupid things no matter what!

Once down by the shore, only Temeraire went directly into the deep water and began to swim. Maximus came tentatively into the shallows, but went no further than he could stand, and Lily stood on the shore watching, nosing at the water but not going in. Levitas, as was his habit, first wavered on the shore, and then dashed out all at once, splashing and flapping wildly with his eyes tightly shut until he got out to the deeper water and began to paddle enthusiastically.

How far would we have to go to run from winter?

We all have to gamble with our lives in here, we don't get a choice about that; the trick is figuring out when it's worth taking a bet.

I was running wild through the forest of magic, pushing brambles out of my way, heedless of scratches and dirt, paying no attention where I was going.

So I put together a street-going rig and came up with the courier.

Now come on. Let's find the baby unicorns and get out of here.

We leave tonight, he continued, very cold and calm, and we take the eggs with us.

Feiglings!" Eroica bellowed after them at the top of his lungs as they clawed and scattered his wing dragons.

It's like—it's gleaning in the woods. . . You have to pick your way through the thickets and the trees, and it's different every time.

De school. De hele school. Wij gaan weg en we vullen de hele school met mals.' Ik staarde haar aan. 'En dan? Schoppen we het hele zwikkie de leegte in of zo?' 'Ja!' zei Liu.

Als bungeejumpen van de hoogste klif ter wereld je geweldig lijkt, zou je dit ook fantastisch vinden. Ik vond het persoonlijk niks.

Onderweg was het Woud van me weg geweken, alsof het bang was dat ik de spreuk anders weer zou opzeggen. Fulmia.

Lots of us up for first run today," Alfie said, in the bright sort of way that someone might say, Well, looks like rain, doesn't it! when it's sheeting down and you've taken shelter under an awning with five people who've all got knives drawn, and you're quietly reaching into your pocket for a handgun.

The spell towed me along with them, and I was glad to lose myself inside it. All the horrors of the day didn't vanish, but the Summoning made them only one part of the story, and not the most important part.

our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes.

Maybe we should just wander around other countries carrying books.

OVER-CAUTION. The person who takes no chances, generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing. Over-caution is as bad as under-caution. Both are extremes to be guarded against. Life itself is filled with the element of chance.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way

Let us go out in the fog, John, let us roll up our raincoat collars and go on the streets where men are sneering at the kings.