Quotes About Adventure

He chuckles at all the people he knows who have taken out bank loans to travel to exotic places like Europe but who have never seen a single state park right here near home.

Malay man-catcher.

We are careless of that which is near us, and follow that which is afar off, to which we will travel and sail beyond the seas.

We are liberated by calculation and reason to visit regions of possibility that had once seemed out of bound or inhabited by dragons.

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.

When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for news, dropping into places to see what was up. Well, I could go to parts of Libya today and find lots of good stories, but I probably wouldn't be around to tell them.

They were men like other young men, unknown to themselves. So much that lay within them they were now travelling to meet.

He whispered into the coral shell of her ear, an organ of women he found unspeakably moving in its soft, whirling vortex, and which always seemed to him an invitation to adventure.

vessels with mini-subs and helicopters attached. As well as undertaking the more conventional

I shall be a carrion monster, he whispered into the coral shell of her ear, an organ of women he found unspeakably moving in its soft, whorling vortex, and which always seemed to him an invitation to adventure.

He read and reread 'Ulysses'. The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

My always needn't be forever. I'm ready for the plunge, nervy as a cliff-diver. Though if down the line things go rotten we can both climb the cliffs again. Life is long.

In the thirties, after they were married, they lived simply and only for each other and for the day. They drank some, lived on the road with my father's salesman's job. They had a good time and felt they had little to look back on, and didn't look.

Fast getaways from sinister forces are sometimes essential, though what follows can mean puzzlement.

Keep the Mach up!

I'm forever amazed at how much fun it is to leave. Just to leave. Arriving has its points, but leaving is inexhaustible.

reimagining your life is going to be messy.

Space, to use a cliché, is big.

I said—do you want to kill a fucking dragon?" More yells, and more punch behind them this time. Egar eased up out of his crouch and filled his lungs. "I can't hear you! Do you—or do you not—want to kill—a motherfucking dragon?

Richard K. Morgan

The odds are pretty good in favour of no one ever finding you. Space, as textbooks are given to saying, is big.

Half the things we dig up, we have no idea what they are, and we still sell them as fucking coffee-table trinkets. Right now, someone back on Latimer has probably got the encoded secret of a faster-than-light drive mounted on their fucking living room wall." She paused. "And it's probably upside down.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. SHAKTI GAWAIN

Leap and the net will appear.