Quotes About Adventure

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.

Life-shortening though it might be, no way in clicking heck was I missing out on the zoomy reward for all my Alp-ascending toil. Going fast downhill is kind of the whole point of cycling; it's what makes it better than walking. Momentum

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

it was through constructing a network of railways across some of Europe's most arduous terrain that the newly formed Italian nation won a reputation for ingenuity and adventurous construction projects.

Life in orbit is spectacular

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.

Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. 'May I presume to suggest,' yelled Shandy giddily to Davies, 'that we preoceed the hell out of here with all due haste.' Davies pushed a stray lock of hair back from his forehead and sat down on the rower's thwart. 'My dear fellow consider it done.

As soon as I get a ship that can take to the open seas, I'm going to find and rescue and - if there's any worth in me - marry the only woman in whom I can see both a body and a face, and with whom I need not resign one or the other of my own.

You know that saying about how fools rush in where wise men fear to tread? Ashok rushes in where fools won't even go.

Contrails. Also helicopters. Skydivers. Basically everything

I used to make a nest in the closet of my bedroom with pillows and blankets and a flashlight and a book. My own tiny world, sacred and inviolate, where I could reign entirely at my own whim and discretion.

Come have a drink with me?" "Isn't it early for that?" Callie shrugged. "We have a saying: 'It's always five o'clock in space.

Okay then. Let's go save the galaxy.

Once you've thrown your pilot chute, you're done. It's out of your hands. From that moment on you just enjoy the view or panic.

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

If you want to go somewhere new, you have to throw out the tired, old map and stop traveling the same road to the same dead end.

It's okay to make mistakes; just make new ones!

I knew all these things were true. Wild Bill may have called me into coming to the place where I would experience this adventure, but Bill had crashed out, and I had pulled myself through and had come away with a sense of myself I didn't have before.

I think I just found a new definition of "nightwinging" it

Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.

I'm going to grab hold of this night and crack it open, eat the fruit right out of the middle, and throw away the rind.