Quotes About Adventure

Ser Corliss Penny gave the clan chief an incredulous look. "Do you want to die, Wull?" That seemed to amuse the northman. "I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again. When I was six-and-twenty I could fight all day and fuck all night. What men want does not matter.

If I drink enough fire wine, he told himself, perhaps I'll dream of dragons. When he was still a lonely child in the depths of Casterly Rock, he oft rode dragons through the nights, pretending he was some lost Targaryen princeling, or a Valyrian dragonlord soaring high o'er fields and mountains.

Adventure stank. She boasted sixty oars, a single sail, and a long lean hull that promised speed. Small, but she might serve, Quentyn thought when he saw her, but that was before he went aboard and got a good whiff of her.

In his smuggling days, Davos had often jested that he knew the waterfront at King's Landing a deal better than the back of his hand, since he had not spent a good part of his life sneaking in and out of the back of his hand.

Arya never seemed to find the places she set out to reach.

Jon relished the stories they were telling, tales of battle and bedding and the hunt. He

The farther in they went, the closer the cliffs pressed to either side. They followed the moonlit ribbon of stream back toward its source. Icicles bearded its stony banks, but Jon could still hear the sound of rushing water beneath the thin hard crust.

We all live our lives, but a reader lives a hundred other lives.

Death can be more exciting than life.

He would just play around, enjoy life and laugh at the white folks up his sleeve. God! What an adventure! What a treat it would be to mingle with white people in places where as a youth he had never dared to enter. At last he felt like an American citizen. He flecked the ash of his panatela out of the open window of the cab and sank back in the seat feeling at peace with the world.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

downtown. He held the matchbox up at the level of his chest so the cricket could see out. This was the first time Chester had been able to watch where he was going on the subway. The last time he had been buried under roast beef sandwiches. He hung out of the box, gazing up and down the car.

I recall the eerie pleasure of getting a copy of the U-2 Users' Manual .

Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

Life's not the breath you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

Live's not the breathes you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon, and to prepare for new journeys to worlds beyond our own.

I really enjoy travel, I enjoy the U.K., I enjoy Scotland, Glasgow.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

Audacity, more audacity and always audacity.