Quotes About Adventure

I love to go to Aksa Beach at midnight.

'Midnight Nation' is really interesting.

I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.

I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

Sometimes we get so focused on the results that we miss doing it - we miss the adventure of being in the midst of something because we're looking too far ahead.

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

I loved Milan. I was there for six years and made my stories there.

I got my driver's license in Milan, so if you can drive in Milan you can drive all over the world.

I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

When I was in Enschende, beside my apartment there was a field with cows grazing in it. Then, I'm in Milan and discover Fashion Week, the restaurants, the clubs and only beautiful women.

A guy who builds his own rocket in his garage, about to jump a mile, is pretty cool. It's the most interesting human-interest story in the world.

I have a horrible sense of direction. I could get lost a mile away from my house.

We had great comic mileage in the 'SG-1' episode 'The Swarm,' where Woolsey is running away faster than anybody else.

I'd quite like to run the Great Wall of China. I've never been to China and there's something about the Great Wall of China that is so iconic and evocative. It's only 3,000 miles. It's not that far.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

Over the years, I've covered 22,000 miles.

I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since her day. You realize how far she had to travel. Not only is it a good 150 miles against the current, you can't take a ship.

People ask how far I've gone in life. About 20 miles.

When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.

Driving alone, you can make 800 miles a day.

This is my life! I'm not getting a lot of sleep, but I am getting a lot of frequent-flyer miles.

When I was 12, I used to ride my scooter two miles to a comics shop, which I can't imagine letting my kids do by themselves through the city.

Crossing the Gobi was a real milestone for me.