Quotes About Adventure

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ANDRÉ GIDE

terra incognita

Remember the maxim "Leap, and the net will appear.

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.... Take a risk a day-one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it. SUSAN JEFFERS

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child

It was fun, although we felt like pawns, or prawns, in the maelstrom.

In fact, I didn't like traveling first class at all. Yes, it was nice to have a bathroom in a hotel and fine service at breakfast...but none of it seemed foreign enough for me. It was all so pleasantly bland that I felt as if I were back on the SS America. I don't like it when everyone speaks perfect English; I'd much rather struggle with my phrasebook.

The peak of a mountain, he says, is always a perilous place to stand, no matter how sweeping the view.

I can't believe you just did that,' Charlie marvelled. 'You've broken more college rules in five minutes than I've managed in a month.

You're really living, not drifting as so many of us do. How I would like to live an adventure, not just act in one! - Georgie, to Cat

P.S. By the by, Frank and I almost got hanged today and were robbed by a charming gang of thieves so there is no need for you to worry that I will feel homesick for old London. P.P.S. I hope you agree my first letter is not devoid of interest and worth a guinea.

Melletin jumped up on a barrel beside Ramil. Brigardians, are you with the Dark Prince? Aye! shouted his countrymen. What about you other men? Ramil asked, looking across the crowd of faces drawn from all parts of the Empire. The slave who had challenged him took one look at Yelena, then raised his hand. I'm in. It seems you might know what you're doing after all. Ramil grinned. I can't promise that--but I can promise that I'll buy you a drink if we're still alive by the end of tomorrow!

He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

Every bird you downed bore pebbles in its gizzard from a land the maps ignored.

We're leaving, I told her one July afternoon. We? You and I? Where are we going, young Master Paul? Do you have your belongings tied up in a red-spotted handkerchief on a stick?

Frenchly, they set off with 1,300 litres of claret, fifty bottles of Pernod, and a mechanical piano.

Daha önce bir araya getirilmemiÅŸ iki kiÅŸiyi bir araya getirebilirsiniz. Bu bazen ateÅŸle çal??an bir balona, hidrojenle çal??an bir balonu baÄŸlaman?n ÅŸu ilk denemesinde olduÄŸu gibi bir ÅŸeydir; yere çak?l?p yanmay? m? yeÄŸlersiniz yoksa yan?p yere çak?lmay? m?? Ama bazen de deneme baÅŸar?l?r ve yeni bir ÅŸey yarat?l?r dünya deÄŸiÅŸir.

And good luck to you, Miss Vale, wherever you may go.

Life is short, Tommy. Short and dangerous. A bit like you.

How he felt (hard as a wall, safe as a house, dangerous as a wild animal), how he smelled (sweat, sawdust, smoke, musk, sex), how he tasted (like sin, if sin was a liqueur)- taken together they should have all comprised an adventure. And then a lesson. And then be rapidly consigned to history.

Odysseus and his soldiers to certain destruction. Odysseus

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

I think I knew even then it would be my maps that would take me across the world, to places and people unknown and into cultures otherwise closed to me. In mapping them I would come to know them a little and at times my very eagerness pained me.