Quotes About Adventure

I've never been out four days. You've never been dead before.

I've never been out four days." "You've never been dead before.

The ones that test the limits sometimes do the most amazing things in life. That's what I've always thought.

Only in the campfire-stoked stories of Boy Scouts, bedtime tales baby-sitters employ to frighten bratty charges, or in the sweet delight of grandpas who never grew up, would the stories live on.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

The soul of alpinism is to travel light and fast through a dangerous landscape in pursuit of a personal star. That is ascent.

Clouds tear over their tops at impossible speed, but inside the wind plays through my heartstrings. Patagonia-it feels like home

I know absolutely nothing about where I'm going. I'm fine with that. I'm happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn't really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It's all blank pages waiting to be written on. It's all about going forward. It's all about uncertainty and possibilities.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

I remember hearing Charlie Bright describe his first day as a teacher as being painfully awkward. "The kids were new to 3rd grade. I was new to any grade," he said. "It was kind of like being on a first date.

And to live only once– What if that's not enough?

Gretta Mulrooney

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.

We left New York drunk and early on the morning of February second. After fifteen days on the water and six on the boat we finally arrived on the shores of Africa.

If you are one of those lucky persons who own a pen that writes underwater, you might try living in a swimming pool.

I wish I'd been a Hell-raiser when I was 30 years old. I tried when I was 50 but I always got sleepy.

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.

The first men to set foot on the moon were sent to Iceland for acclimation—that's how unlike to anything else the Icelandic landscape is.

When people ask us why we moved to Austin we can truthfully answer: We pointed at the map.

Shall we the shipwrecked drown and dream A further voyage to farther stars

Mon beau navire ô ma mémoire Avons-nous assez navigué Dans une onde mauvaise à boire Avons-nous assez divagué De la belle aube au triste soir

Come to the edge, He said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them, And they flew . . .

Come to the edge, He said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them, And they flew . . ." — Guillaume Apollinairet French poet

Il faut voyager loin en aimant sa maison