Quotes About Adventure

The odds of becoming a NASA astronaut - you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning.

I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.

Everybody's 'odyssey' is a little bit different. Batman's is his own and unique to him.

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.

Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.

As much as I love beach holidays, I do really like to get out and about and explore. It's why I like Los Angeles: because I can easily drive to Malibu or Santa Monica to see what they have to offer. I get itchy feet if I stay still too long in one place when I'm abroad.

I want to do anything interesting that is offered to me.

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have been offered have been films, and I've enjoyed the travel that goes along with that.

I've been so blessed since doing 'I'm A Celebrity'... It has changed my life, and I just want to keep on being offered fun projects like 'The Jump' to do.

I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

We got offers to make sequels to both 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' and they never really interested us because we like having these endings where it seems very final but could hint at some kind of future adventure that you'll never see.

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

I enjoyed every experience that life offers.

When somebody offers you a role which you might not have done for a long time then it becomes a challenge for you.

I think you jump into things without thinking ahead very much because I had never been in an airplane - even in a commercial airliner. I had never flown at all. I just wanted to be commissioned, to be a commissioned officer.

I get out in my boat and go fishing inshore and offshore.