Quotes About Adventure

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

CCC wanted everyone to believe that he had done what he set out to do – sailed west to find Japan in the east. He made his men swear an oath…

Have you ever noticed how 'What the hell' is always the right decision to make?

Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty...

Trajan became commander of the world's largest army. It was a tradition for any new emperor to kick-start his reign with a little military adventure – and Trajan especially wasn't going to be left out. Kicking ass on the frontiers helped an emperor to stamp his authority on the Empire, built his reputation and kept the army busy. Besides, Trajan took 'delight in war'.19

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant idiot.

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.

In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off, every artery and nerve of us, into the rest of our commemorative lives.

If you've lived only by reasonableness, well, you have missed the show, haven't you?

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected - something amazing - could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust the universe.

We'd never seen him before: into the torpor of the suburb his footsteps broke like a signal for adventure on a jaunty trumpet.

There's a lot more to ridin' a horse than just sittin' in the saddle and lettin' yer feet hang down.

ride without a friend or two along for company.

I was born to travel and write verse.

Time is your boat not your home.

Life is your barque not your home!"80

Life is your barque not your home!

Life is a river,' he once told me, 'and we all have to find a boat that floats.

Natural movement is riskier," he acknowledged, "but life is risky and music is an element of life, so it is risky, too!

But tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun