Quotes About Adventure

Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination.

You get to be about eleven or twelve and everything's old hat. They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

By the way," Devona asked, "how did Lazlo know to come get us?" "I have no idea. Sometimes he just shows up when I need him." "That's odd," she said. I laughed. "You're a half-human vampire who's asked a zombie ex-cop to help you track down a stolen magic crystal – and you think Lazlo's odd?

We had to rescue Tavi – or what was left of him – but the question was how? We couldn't exactly walk up to Titanus, give him a stern look, and say, "Bad dinosaur! You spit that out now!

I used to be a summer camp counselor when I was younger.

Let's get out of here before–" A gigantic reptilian head rose up before us, fiery green water trickling down its black-scaled hide.

I figured we'd just do what we always do: stick our noses in where they don't belong and see what happens.

Beckey's fame spread through word of mouth. There were stories about his wolf howl, a blood-chilling sound, which Beckey would use to scare tourists away from his favorite campsites.

Thrill to the names—El Dorado, Searchlight, Medicine Bow, Mesa Verde, Tombstone, Durango, Hole in the Wall, Lost Trail Pass, Nez Perce National Forest. Active names, implying that something consequential is going on: the Wind River Range, the Magic Valley, the River of No Return, the Painted Desert, Wolf Point, Paradise, Death Valley, the Crazy Mountains.

It still scares people driving cars named Expedition and Outlander... Throughout the Great Plains, a visitor passes more nothing than something. Or so it seems.

Here in the corner attic of America, two hours' drive from a rain forest, a desert, a foreign country, an empty island, a hidden fjord, a raging river, a glacier, and a volcano is a place where the inhabitants sense they can do no better, nor do they want to.

I'll take the advice of Labre, the patron saint of wandering souls, who grew up not far from here: 'There is no way. The way is made by walking.

The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.

The fishing is best where the fewest go,

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." –Anaïs Nin

there has never been a better time for testing the uncommon.

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot. —PAUL THEROUX, To the Ends of the Earth

It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as the novelist who is over certain of his plot." –Paul Theroux

The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.

Different is better when it is more effective or more fun. If

I'd rather die doing something I feel is great and amazing rather than be safe and comfortable living a life I hate.