Quotes About Adventure

My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.

I don't want to die an old lady.

I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

A 30-year-old rock climber is an old man. At 40, one is in the middle of his high-altitude power. At 50, a crosser of deserts is at his best age. But at 60, each of us is out of the game.

It's going to hurt if I fall. I don't want to deal with that, I want to prove that it can be done for a long life, until I'm an old man.

You immediately hear the word 'Merlin,' you think magic, you think adventure, excitement - you also think 'an old man.'

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

My guitarist husband, Mike, and writer me are the old-fashioned kind of bohemians. Not 'fro-haired hipsters gyrating in iPod ads, but the sort who, starting January 1 of every year, literally don't know where their next dime is coming from.

I think it's healthy for bands to discover new, older stuff.

I finally became a scuba diver at age 15 or so, and a couple of years after that, I attended a dive show that is held every year in Boston. It's the oldest one in the world and it's still going on - it's called the Sea Rovers.

Seriously, my grandma's like the oldest lady on ShipRocked every year. My grandma's crazy.

I've been on and off motorbikes most of my life.

I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

I moved to Hawaii when I was fourteen. And I was there for a year and then I was just sort of on and off after that, just because I had friends and family there.

I've worked with horses on and off most of my life, but literally 'on and off' - flipping on them and falling off them.

Before I started modeling, I had never been out of the country, and now I feel like I'm out of the country at least a few times a month, if not once a week.

Golf and fishing. I usually do both at least once a week. The biggest fish I've ever caught was a 36 lb. carp.

I gasp for air if I don't get to breathe Italian air once a year.

I read 'Y: The Last Man' once a year.

Once a year, I gather a group of friends to go fishing.

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

I can't take just one book with me anywhere.

I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book.