Quotes About Adventure

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.

In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

Love and life belongs to great risk.

We'd turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we'd survive to talk about.

Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and adressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. [...] The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Brandy says, Don't you see? Because we're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes. Brandy says, I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life.

I stepped into the back of a cab and simply told the driver, Follow the blue Christmas tree...

In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.

A different toothbrush waits in every time zone.

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them.

We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see what it's going to show us when we get home.

Brandy says, "Don't you see? Because we're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes." Brandy says, "I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life.

If you want Neil Gaiman I could draw you a map.

Rant Casey no era malvado. Más bien parecía que estuviera intentando encontrar algo real en el mundo. Hoy día los niños no crecen conectados a nada, se pasan el tiempo enchufados y viviendo vidas que otra gente ha alucinado para ellos. Aventuras de segunda mano. Creo que Rant quería que todo el mundo experimentara por lo menos una aventura de verdad. En tanto que comunidad, algo que uniera a la gente.

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere