Quotes About Adventure

We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to step out into the sky Like that fearless flower --Sosuke Aizen,Flower on the Precipice

i am a trickster who doesn't know solitude

Oh, all of us dream That we are flying the skies With our eyes open

Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure--seeing life through the eyes of another.

O for a beakerful of the warm South!

Youth. A once-in-a-lifetime experience.

And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded watseland, nervously monitoring his radiation level, armed only with a baseball bat, a 10mm pistol, and six rounds of ammunition, in search of a vicious gang of mohawked marauders who were 100 percent bad news and totally had to be dealth with. Trust Daddy on this one.

His superiors in the Merchant Marine were astonished. Here he was, ready to go back to the security of the Merchant Marine Academy for another eighteen months of accelerated training, and he wanted to quit to join one of the most dangerous outfits in the service. His officer offered him a thirty-day furlough to think it over. Broderick said, "No, my mind's made up.

Tom Broderick spent seventeen weeks in basic training for the infantry in Mineral Wells, Texas, before heading to Fort Benning, Georgia, to become a member of the 82nd Airborne. When he finished his training, a captain offered him an instructor's job and the rank of sergeant. Again Broderick refused the safer alternative, saying he wanted to stay with his outfit and go overseas. Broderick

All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.

not a very nice place is it? rosen asked as they came back for the last load. they say there's a hundred different kinds of snake there. ninety-nine are poisonous. and the other one? kelly handed a carton over to the doctor. that one eats your ass whole.

you can follow along.

Like I keep telling people, the more thinking you do before things get exciting, the less exciting things will be. And they get plenty exciting enough.

mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

Hvammsfjördur.

From Russia with Love

It's not Adventureland, but you write some poems, the leaves move, and you get laid sometimes. Tom Drury's Pierre Hunter on life.

Being safe is fiction.

there is a lot to enjoy in life if you make the effort to go out there and drink it in.

one lives as if one "might miss out on something.

How much more fun life must have been when we went around on horses, chatting to strangers, leaning over gates, leaping over fences, singing with joy, being at one with nature, its animals and its weather.

To walk out of your front door as if you've just arrived from a foreign country; to discover the world in which you already live; to begin the day as if you've just gotten off the boat from Singapore and have never seen your own doormat or the people on the landing . . . it is this that reveals the humanity before you, unknown until now.

You wouldn't think you could get bored falling to your death... But when it's a really, really long drop, there's a definite risk on ennui.

A hero, Max said. A weirdness-haunted victim of circumstance who spends his days looking for things. Max grinned. That's what I just said.