Quotes About Adventure

A great leap in the dark

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Today, I'll simply wander. Head off in one direction or another and keep walking. Until I feel like stopping.

The result was that Preston successfully negotiated quite a few decades without ever coming within hailing distance of puberty. In this state of arrested development, he defiantly lived through many a perverse adventure. And he still lives in the pages of those books I wrote about him, though I stopped writing them some years ago.

The anchor heaves, the ship swings free The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!

Once she even successfully argued on behalf of my older brother, Dan, getting a BBGun, a weapon which he promptly turned against his younger siblings, outfitting us in helmet and leather jacket and instructing us to run across Eaton Park while he practiced his marksmanship. Today he is a colonel in the army and the rest of us are gun-shy.

One might suppose from such a beginning that Friday is to be a futuristic James Bond adventure. It's not, though the action is often of that ilk. However, the action is rarely anything but icing on the cake and rarely servees to advance the plot. There is a plot, though the author contrives with great grace to let it all take place in the reader's peripheral vision.

He (and anyone else who survived) learned to be as unscrupulous as the heroes in the pulp adventure magazines he'd read as a boy--sometimes, as unscrupulous as the villains.

Easy," he muttered under his breath. "Save the foolish heroics for the 'all-else-fails' part of the program.

wi' the boys. Thar's a somethin

They were about a foot tall, and something about their matching size and identical bandit masks, coupled with their misjudgment of aspens as an escape route, gave me a sense of real glee at the originality of things.

Yonder's another vessel, I'll board her - if she be lawful prize, down goes her top-sail.

Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight 's past.

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

He had broken plenty of rules today. If he wasn't fired for it, he would break a few more.

Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back.

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

Voler est un acte de conquête où l'on défie les forces les plus puissantes et les plus fondamentales de la nature.

The real way to live a long life is not by being a frightened and cautious victim but by living boldly and accepting the idea of taking reasonable risks.

Life does not follow the continuous flow of logical argument and that one often has to risk moving beyond the limits of the rational in order to live life to the fullest.

klappt ihr Notizbuch zu und schaut aus dem runden Flugzeugfenster. Unter ihnen glitzert das weiche Abendlicht der untergehenden Sonne auf dem Atlantik. In wenigen Minuten werden sie in New York landen. Das hat der Pilot vorhin durchgesagt. Sprotte schnallt sich an und weckt den Siebzehnjährigen neben ihr. »Aufwachen, Fred, wir sind gleich da.«

Ninety-five degrees in the shade characterizes the weather these days, and I generally make a few miles in the gloaming - not, of course, because it is cooler, but because the "gloaming" is so delightfully romantic.

If travel expands our experience and broadens our minds, the anticipation of travel helpfully narrows our reading list.