Quotes About Adventure

I didn't want to be a storyteller when I grew up; I wanted to be stuntman.

I'm a rock climber, a high-altitude climber, an adventurer, a storyteller through my museums, and a writer of more than 50 books.

I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders.

Role-playing games are just an organic improvised space for storytelling.

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.

I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went as an artist. I was increasing my skill set and exploring storytelling through painting.

I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

I am really interested in storytelling in general - nothing is off-limits!

Storytelling has changed. Shows like 'Adventure Time' have taken storytelling in a different direction.

For me, storytelling is what I love to do and that's my life's work. Football is not my life's work. It's just part of my life's journey, but creativity is my actual life's work.

Everything I do is storytelling; storytelling is about curiosity.

We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying from London. It's very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you're on another planet. But I like that. Also, that's ideal for writing.

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.