Quotes About Adventure

Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.

Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

To have infinite oceanic horizons! This is what a man needs to reach the unreachable.

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.

What the Man-Moth fears most he must do.

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.

There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.

Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

If you did enough traveling, you'd never feel at home anywhere.

Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear-throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown. Which is the same as riding it into China, as far as chasing him down is concerned.

Waterhouse's new roommate is out of town just now, but by glancing over his personal effects, Waterhouse estimates that he is paddling a black kayak from Australia to Yokosuka Naval Base, where he will slip on board a battleship and silently kill its entire crew with his bare hands before doing an Olympic-qualifying dive into the bay, punching out a few sharks, climbing back into his kayak and paddling back to Australia for a beer.

after that it's just a chase scene.