Quotes About Adventure

The National Parks are overlooked and underrated, and they shouldn't be.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk.

As a ski bum and someone who came up in a ski bum family, I understand the essence of what Colorado is all about.

I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance.

Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are.

Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again.

I think it's important that everyone understands that there's no real prescription to having an awesome life.

The Red Viper enjoys life. He does not discriminate in his pleasures. This is the way he understands life, to live it to its fullest. And to limit yourself in terms of experience doesn't make any sense to him - what's beautiful is beautiful.

Star Wars has built-in scale. Everybody understands it, we know the scale of the universe.

Climbing is an understated culture.

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.

Science fiction is something I never understood.

I've lived all over the country - Michigan, California, Texas, New Jersey, Rhode Island and, now, Maine - but I never understood springtime until I spent 25 years farming in the Ozarks.

Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books.

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

I can't think of anything I regret. Everything I've done, I've enjoyed doing. I've had five husbands, four children. I've done it all, but mainly I've enjoyed studying fish and being underwater with them, being in their natural habitat, looking at the fish and the fish looking at me.

Cave divers, of course, deal with an elevated level of risk, and the most that I can say here is that we tend to conduct our work at the bottom of a deep cave on an extremely conservative basis with heavy levels of backup equipment and a policy to abort if any single person doesn't like the situation underwater at any time during the mission.