Quotes About Adventure

Sam and Remi dressed quickly and headed up on deck. When they climbed the steps to the bridge, they could see why Juan had wanted to wake them. Through the windshield they could see the distant shape of Tacaná, the second highest peak in Mexico. It was a dark blue pyramid miles back from the coast, standing alone against the sky. This morning, it was emitting a line of gray smoke that trailed off to the east

JANUARY 10, 1906 BISBEE, ARIZONA

GRAND ST. BERNARD PASS, PENNINE ALPS MAY 1800

Pitt has always looked in the future and found it full of excitement and adventure. In the 1970s he was a man of the '80s. Now he is a man of the '90s. Like a scout out for a wagon train, Pitt looks over the next hill and tells us what's there. He sees what we'd all like to see in our imaginations.

past the cemetery outside the town of Rhyolite, Nevada.

Black hair fell past his neck but just short of the shoulders. His head was protected by a stained Mexican sombrero.

You can't drive down the middle of the Mall! I damned well can and will so long as we live to tell about it!

mountain passes that

drove his new customized Tesla

Giordino looked at Pitt like he was crazy, then followed his gaze up the ravine. Overhead was a dark mass of rock buried beneath a thin layer of ice. Surveying the hillside, Giordino suddenly felt his jaw drop. It wasn't a mound of rock at all, he realized with astonishment. Above them, embedded in the ice, the men found themselves staring at the wooden black hull of a nineteenth-century sailing ship. 80 THE EREBUS STOOD LIKE A FORGOTTEN RELIC OF a bygone era.

A controlled outward explosion," Kurt said. "Basically, a giant sucking sound that ends with us flying out through the shattered window and free-falling toward the ocean for approximately ten minutes. Which will seem rather pleasant when compared to the sudden stop at the bottom.

stranded Napoleon in Egypt, which

Julia tensed as she looked through the steering wheel of the Model J Duesenberg and saw the needle creep up and waver at seventy miles an hour. This car doesn't have seat belts. They didn't believe in them in 1929.

Clive Cussler

There's a little of Dirk Pitt in all of us.

Life is too short to give a fuck. Jump in the pool butt ass naked and do it up.

Having a ten-year-old daughter can be like living with a fairy. Something magical.

i dream of ships at sea, on a stormy night i wish that it was me, but i wake up in fright

As late as 1701, a Bordeaux ship's captain was able to persuade his employers that he had lost his cargo off Newfoundland to a fire-breathing dragon looming out of the deep.

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world ...

A journey is not a cure. It brings an illusion, only, of change, and becomes at best a spartan comfort

A virgin with a dish of gold, it was said, could walk unmolested from China to Turkey.

That would be a fine day...one that I needed a girl to save my life. From a vampire.

Hurry up, Mina. There's a dead body here for you!