Quotes About Adventure

What is a stratosphere fourteen miles from the earth or a sunken glass house on the sea-bottom amid fish and feather- stars unless a bet that man can shove on beyond yesterday's record of man the hoper, the believer?

She knew there was a big Chicago far off, where all the trains ran.

The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way.

For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length-and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.

Mo? po?iva na vrsti znanja koje ?ovek poseduje. Kakvog ima smisla znati ono što je beskorisno? To nas ne?e pripremiti za neizbežan susret sa nepoznatim.

Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

Siempre había pensado que las viejas estaciones de ferrocarril eran uno de los pocos lugares mágicos que quedaban en el mundo. En ellas se mezclaban los fantasmas de recuerdos y despedidas con el inicio de cientos de viajes a destinos lejanos, sin retorno. Si algun dia me pierdo, que me busquen en una estación de tren, pensé.

Una historia no tiene principio ni fin, tan solo puertas de entrada.

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...

I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care.

To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them.

Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever.

Don't be bashful; we're among gentlemen. It's a known fact that we men are the missing link between the pirate and the pig.

I hope you find the path that I missed.

A story has no beginning and no end, only points of entry.

Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up destroying them a week after they were finished, embarrassed at the thought that he had penned them.

?itava se Barcelona prostirala meni pod nogama i želio sam vjerovati da ?e mi kad otvorim te svoje nove prozore njezine ulice u sumrak šaputati na uho pri?e i tajne kako bih ih uhvatio na papir i ispri?ao onima koji ih žele slušati.

Avevo sempre pensato che le stazioni ferroviarie fossero tra i pochi lughi magici rimasti al mondo. I fantasmi dei ricordi e degli addii vi si mescolavano con l'inizio di centinaia di viaggi per destinazioni lontane, senza ritorno.

Mi balenò in mente il pensiero che dietro ogni copertina si celasse un universo da esplorare e che, fuori di lì, la gente sprecasse il tempo ascoltando partite di calcio e sceneggiati alla radio, paga della propria mediocrità.

She let herself be lulled by the perfume of the words and was soon lost among them, succumbing to the torrent of images and rhythms that oozed from the story of Ariadna's adventures and her descent into the depths of that enchanted Barcelona.

I felt like running away and not stopping until there was no more world left to run from.

We still have a lot of history to live through, Daniel, and what awaits us is no longer child's play. Are you with me? To that end of the world, which, for all we know, might only be around the corner?