Quotes About Adventure

I don't want to get stale. I'm always interested in new things.

In Canada, I climbed some mountains with the Alpine Club of Canada, which taught me a lot about stamina.

Movie-making is an extreme sport on many levels. It requires stamina such as I had never imagined.

I have a road bike and a mountain bike, and I tend to use them both a lot. They help you keep your balance and your stamina.

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.

If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramatic action that takes place.

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

It's been a long time since we've been out there playing new material, and we have really enjoyed that. Of course we still enjoy playing the Yes standards as well, but it's great to have a bit of a challenge and pull off new material.

I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

I can still remember my first experience of standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon and looking into it. It was so awesome, it took a fair amount of restraint to prevent me from jumping into it, because I was certain I could fly.

Realistically, my favorite thing really is going out and seeing the different problems that people have in different geographical areas. Not just from a standpoint of the area that they may be in or the city they may be in but the different kind of car culture or motorcycle culture there is.

Kids love to be scared; we all do. But there's a difference between leaving them hanging out there, with their fears, and then bringing them safely home. Kids love it when someone like them stands up against real evil, something really horrendous and frightening, and win.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into 'The Battle of the Five Armies,' it stands alone as a film. Rather than just finishing off the story, it's like a whole new adventure all of its own. I'm very excited about it.

I've actually never done standup before.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Old men ought to be explorers.

By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.