Quotes About Adventure

Look. If you want to go back to the ship fully clothed and mostly sober, I promise I wont tell anyone.

If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Going outside was like walking straight into the mouth of a yawning dog.

No heroism in forever following the calculations of one's cunning mind. A man ought to attempt the illogical, if there's fire in his heart.

I've found out that Malakula was named by Captain James Cook. It comes from the French mal au cul which means 'pain in the arse' after Cook found it difficult to deal with cannibals, volcanoes and other annoying features. It's good to know proper explorers sometimes share the feelings I have on my travels.

had a wee in the Amazon. Until Richard told me I should be careful because there are some tiny fish that can swim up from the water through my urine and into my knob! Is that how amazing the Amazon is? The fish in there would really rather live in my knob than the river.

going they hadn't heard of it either.

When you're going in the right direction, life always looks larger than what you're accustomed to.

We can talk about our dreams all night, Lisette. We can talk forever, for the rest of our lives, living one adventure after another, I promise. But not now, my darling Lisette. For now, all I can think of is the brilliance of yet another ancient Greek, Sophocles. He said, 'One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life-that word is love.' I love you, Lisette. You bring my life joy I've never known. Please, marry me.

So what building are we breaking into? Give me all the information you've got and I'll hunt down the rest. By the way, when are we doing this? I glanced up. Tonight. Tonight? Oh, boy... Miracles 'R' Us. I assume that we're not going to go and ask permission for this.

This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went, women were disappearing.

From the open French windows Sylvie watched Maurice erecting a makeshift tennis net, which mostly seemed to involve whacking everything in sight with a mallet. Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become.

Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.

But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.

She could have started up a branch library (or a spectacular house fire)

Maurice had disappeared after breakfast. He was a nine-year-old boy and free to go where he pleased with whomsoever he pleased, although he tended to keep to the exclusive company of other nine-year-old boys. Sylvie had no idea what they did but at the end of the day he would return, filthy from head to toe and with some unappetizing trophy, a jar of frogs or worms, a dead bird, the bleached skull of some small creature.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

Think of the man who first tried German sausage.

I don't like to date so much as I just like to kind of, you know, run into somethin', man.

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.