Quotes About Adventure

You're the best thing that's ever happened to me. You…and this world you've opened up for me ... I want a life with you, and I want a life in your world.

Love is like jumping off a cliff, even when you know you're acrophobic.

A non-story example: An idea is to travel to Florida. A concept is to travel by car and stop at all the national parks along the way. A premise is to take your estranged father with you and mend fences while on the road.

Antonio Machado (Spanish poet): Your walking, your footprints are the road and nothing else; there is no road, walker; You make the road by walking.

Spend money on experiences, not stuff. Never rent a storage unit for more than a few months.

Here is an American epic, a wandering without a homecoming.

Long ago, Louis Wu had stood at the void edge of Mount Lookitthat. The Long Fall River, on that world, ends in the tallest waterfall in known space. Louis's eyes had followed it down as far as they could penetrate the void mist. The featureless white of the void itself had grasped at his mind, and Louis Wu, half hypnotized, had sworn to live forever. How else could he see all there was to see? Now he reaffirmed that decision.

Go small, go simple, go now

Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow.

Having a strong vision can help with innovation, but so much creativity and innovation comes from one's ability to take risks – controlled risks – and learn from mistakes.

I have done the merry-go-round and I have ridden the roller-coaster. I have made my choice. I choose the roller-coaster. There is more risk when you choose the roller-coaster, but at least you will know you have lived.

U osam sati, teturali smo se ulicama i sudarali sa banderama. Posrtali smo, cerekali se i grlili, urlali na nebo, upisivali svoja imena u zvezde, imena, prezimena i adrese, kakva je samo no? bila pred nama!

I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being a detective, like Encyclopedia Brown. Being a researcher is a way I've achieved that dream ... without the danger.

My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

When I behold the ocean, I know that the world isn't just the grind of small tasks and small thoughts. The world is wide and wild and grand. Someday I will sail my little bark into the great ocean of life, braving the winds and the tide. And while the waves may dwarf me, they will not belittle me, because I will be the master of my fate and the captain of my soul.

I knew that reading that book would take me into another world — the real world, not the ordinary world of washing the dishes and mopping the floor. It would be like what Keats said about gazing through a magic casement into faery lands forlorn.

He could not breathe freely unless the land spread open in front of him. There were no awkward questions, no uncomfortable demands here, only the sky and the soil and the steady beat of hooves and heart in tandem.

I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.

Hey, 27. Way to skip HistCulture and almost die. Classy." "Yeah," I said, matching her nonchalant tone. "It was so much fun. You should try it sometime. Did the drone…?" "Leave yet? Yes. Did it mean to fly in our airspace? My opinion is no, which I'm writing up in this report that will most likely be ignored," Eva sighed.

May you love your life and seize it with both hands.

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

The men in my life are always like the countries I visit: I fall in love briefly and then move on. I visit, regard the wonders, delve into the history, taste the cooking, peer into dark corners, feel a few moments of excitement and maybe ecstasy and bliss, and then, though I am often sad to leave - or stung that no one insists that I stay - I am on my way.

You know why we'll never give up cars—because riding in cars at night is so beautiful, it's telling stories in a cave with the darkness kept out, the dash lights for the embers of the fire.