Quotes About Adventure

My sky diving experience was spectacular, to say the least. The number of safety measures and repeated cross checks make it safer. The team did not let us jump alone, as individuals are not expected to have the expertise to do so safely on their own.

Please get on an airplane or a horse, because it's pretty spectacular.

The climbs up the Hand of Fatima, which is 2,000 feet, and Naga Parbat, which is just over 15,000 feet, were spectacular. The Hand of Fatima and the Kaga Tondo, in Mali, is a personal favourite of mine.

I speak four languages, and I've seen some of the most spectacular locations in the world and met hundreds of fascinating people.

But I've always wanted to host my own show. And imagine being offered a chance to travel to the most spectacular beaches in the world, as part of work!

I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.

I have always been interested in the whole spectrum of the outdoors.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

Speed and danger don't always go together, but it's proper fun when they do.

Scaling a business at speed can feel like an out of control roller-coaster.

I enjoy putting myself in situations where you are nervous, but you need to enjoy yourself also. I've done skydiving, bungee jumping. I quite like those sensations - when you feel a little bit nervous and you don't really know where you are going. It's a quite good sensation that I love. I like the speed; I like everything.

I had relatives who would go to Japan and bring back random stuff they bought at the airport or whatever - 'Ultraman' and 'Speed Racer,' stuff like that.

Some tell me I'll break my ankle on my high heels - but I live in them. I'm known for doing speed dashes and leaps and bounds in heels. No problem.

Favorite Bat-gadget was probably the Batboat, because it was fun to get out on the ocean and run that thing around at high speed.

I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.

I was always out wiping around on the farm with three-wheelers and four-wheelers. I loved the speed and the adrenaline rush that followed.

The idea for the 'Speed' series was to break the record for the fastest push bike.

I was always an adrenaline junkie, always competitive, always a speed freak.

Today, to find a challenge is really hard. In the Alps, everything is done. The new lines, almost all of them are finished. So to find a new challenge, it's all beginning to go to speed.

I've been under the spell of the North ever since my childhood in Alaska. More and more, I've been returning to Alaska, and sometimes my adventures inspire a story.