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Quotes About Adventure

of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land.
~ Dani Shapiro
He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road;
~ Daniel Defoe
Now I wished for my boy Xury, and the long boat with the shoulder of mutton sail, with which I sailed above a thousand miles on the coast of Africk; but this was in vain.
~ Daniel Defoe
una vida tan variada como pocas se verán en el mundo; que comenzó locamente y concluyó mucho mejor de lo que jamás hubiese esperado.
~ Daniel Defoe
my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world
~ Daniel Defoe
I shot at a great bird which I saw sitting upon a tree on the side of a great wood.
~ Daniel Defoe
And thus I left the island, the 19th of December, as I found by the ship's account, in the year 1686, after I had been upon it eight-and-twenty years, two months, and nineteen days;
~ Daniel Defoe
Never any young adventurer's misfortunes, I believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine.
~ Daniel Defoe
El bote era en verdad mucho mayor que todas las canoas o piraguas hechas de troncos que yo viera en mi vida. Muchos hachazos me había costado por cierto, y ahora solo faltaba botarlo al agua; de haberlo conseguido hubiera yo emprendido a su bordo el más alocado e imposible viaje de que se tenga memoria alguna.
~ Daniel Defoe
companions being going by sea to London, in
~ Daniel Defoe
God told Abraham to leave his home and set for journey and to have faith of being taken care of. Not just an external journey, it was also a journey upon into oneself.
~ Daniel Gottlieb
Let's go, let's go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.
~ Daniel Handler
December 5 is what I saw as we walked together on October 5, let's go, let's go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.
~ Daniel Handler
He who wants the world must first escape from it.
~ Daniel Handler
Let's see where this leads us, this adventure with the thrum of the music and the blizzard of stagy snow...happy tears freezing to diamonds...let's go, let's go, hurry towards the happy ending....let's go together toward something extraordinary, and I start making plans, thinking we would get that far.
~ Daniel Handler
There is only laughing across the land as the car moves you along, on your way someplace with love in the car.
~ Daniel Handler
Te ofrecí una aventura, Ed, justo delante de ti, pero tu no fuiste capaz de verla hasta que yo te la mostré, y por eso rompimos
~ Daniel Handler
When you're at sea, Gwen would probably reply, it's not food. It's fuel, for further exploits. So the exploit fuels the next exploit, and the next the next, and so on? Is there nothing more, nothing else? Is there ever?
~ Daniel Handler
The screen shows me Portugal. The screen shows me Cairo. They have a thing where you can wander the streets. I can go anywhere I want is what the screen keeps telling me. Try this. Try there. Go around here. The world's wide open. You can wander anyplace and you'll be alone there, too.
~ Daniel Handler
I gave you an adventure, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you.
~ Daniel Handler
She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters.
~ Daniel Handler
Phil Needle stood in the parking lot, suddenly grasping that this was so, that nothing is lost in a world utterly mapped, that nothing is rogue with everything cross-pollinated, as the shouts on the beach lured him across the street to the sand.
~ Daniel Handler
You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten. It is an honor to be in that sacred space in some children's brains.
~ Daniel Handler
I gave you an adventure, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you and that's why we broke up.- Min, Why We Broke Up
~ Daniel Handler