Quotes About Adventure

After half a day in a place—especially a foreign country—you've learned more than from all the books and articles you've read.

Charged with the mission of operating beyond the boundaries of civilization with minimal support and no communication from higher authority, they lived and often died by the motto, 'Order first, then law will follow.

Follow the path of the unsafe

Should you dare to ride this dreadful beast, you would awaken later as if from a deep sleep, with some of these printed scraps clutched in your hands. Fragments would hint at ideal books, impossible books, books that you have always longed to read.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up.

The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.

Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.' Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein: COMING. TORSTEIN.

Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.

Otherwise he was glad we had missed our landing, for he still had three books to read.

The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator.

It was a great moment on board when two large boobies were spotted above the horizon to westward

But you can't navigate a raft," he added. "It goes sideways and backward and round as the wind takes it.

The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator. The ocean has been man's highway from the days he built the first buoyant ships, long before he tamed the horse, invented wheels, and cut roads through the virgin jungles.

California, here I come.

Thornton W. Burgess

BOWSER THE HOUND BY THORNTON W.

Thornton W. Burgess

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The most exhausting of all our adventures is that journey down the long corridors of the mind to the last halls where belief is enthroned.

All historical novels are science fiction since they are about time travel

There is no adventure in life equal to that of being, and asserting, one's self.

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.