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Quotes About Adventure

Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the       imperious waves
~ Walt Whitman
Allons! the road is before us! Camerado, I give you my hand! I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
~ Walt Whitman
Caution seldom goes far enough.
~ Walt Whitman
Lo, the unbounded sea,   On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even       her moonsails.   The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately—       below emulous waves press forward,   They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam.         I
~ Walt Whitman
Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt, Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee, In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night, Kindling a fire and broiling the freshkilled game, Soundly falling asleep on the gathered leaves, my dog and gun by my side.
~ Walt Whitman
In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador
~ Walt Whitman
Do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. You would not find the necessary courage there.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Our taverns and our metropolitan streets, our offices and furnished rooms, our railroad stations and our factories appeared to have us locked up hopelessly. Then came the film and burst this prison-world asunder by the dynamite of the tenth of a second, so that now, in the midst of its far-clung ruins and debris, we calmly and adventurously go traveling.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
It seemed to my young mind that there was not a day, scarcely an hour, I lived, but that Life was unfolding itself in ever new and ravishing disguises. I had not begun to be in the least tired or afraid of it. Smallest of bubbles I might be, tossing on the great waters, but I reflected the universe.
~ Walter de La Mare
The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible.
~ Walter Dean Myers
It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy.
~ Walter Isaacson
Insert quarter, avoid Klingons.
~ Walter Isaacson
El viaje es la recompensa
~ Walter Isaacson
school, he wandered through the Midwest picking up work as a
~ Walter Isaacson
Recréese en la fantasía.
~ Walter Isaacson
I wanted to throw caution and logic to the wind and join Apple
~ Walter Isaacson
special trip to Japan with
~ Walter Isaacson
A realm of intimate, personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested
~ Walter Isaacson
wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere
~ Walter Isaacson
I liked the film because it was about taking risks and learning to let those you love take risks," Jobs said.
~ Walter Isaacson
Let's Be Pirates!
~ Walter Isaacson
In 1482, the year he turned thirty, Leonardo da Vinci left Florence for Milan, where he would end up spending the next seventeen years.
~ Walter Isaacson
The journey is the reward
~ Walter Isaacson
I didn't want anyone to know I had parents. I wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere, with no roots, no connections, no background.
~ Walter Isaacson