Quotes About Adventure

Walter and Bell glanced at each other, neither one relishing the idea of being the brave hero who found the escaped tiger in the bedroom.

and a whimsical ceramic sugar bowl shaped like an octopus.

Repeat the experiment?" Nina echoed. "We almost got ourselves killed today. If you want to repeat that, you can count me out.

No disrespect to your people, but we're not going to San Francisco here. I ain't wearing any flowers in my hair, Dean said.

What if he did just that? What if he went through the gate?

He knew he would be crazy to take that kind of risk, but he'd also be crazy not to.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

Being boring is a sin. It doesn't matter if you mess up; at least you're trying something different

So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.

Weil es so glamourös ist, das Herumstreunen an seltsamen Orten, wo einen absolut keiner kennt.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

A risky plan, but what is life without risk, eh?

blindfolded." "Tell me you're kidding," he said. But then came the screech of brakes on his left and the matching shriek of Yeager's heart. "Shit, Zoe! Open your eyes." He heard the grin in her voice. "Don't worry so much. That was just Mr. Curtis in his '72 El Dorado. He drives with cataracts, I drive with my eyes closed. I think that makes us about even." Yeager's self-pity evaporated as he imagined thousands of

Hey boy! / So don't even tell me your name / All I need to know is whose place / And let's get walking...

This is like telling a person who has leapt off a cliff to be careful. I am already in midair.

We are headed toward the unknown, and we have no choice but to sit quietly in our hard seats and let ourselves be taken there.

Richard knows a bar that's open until two and they go off in search of it, the two girls tottering on their heels and swaying against the men, who seem all too happy to support them.

This girl may never go anywhere. She should at least know that adventure is in her bones." When

She says she can't believe she raised a child who traveled all over the world but has been content ever since to let the world come to her.

See the interlaced strands?' She touched the raised pattern with a knobby finger. 'These trace a never-ending path, leading away from home and circling back. When you wear this, you'll never be far from the place you started.

She felt her fear unspooling like a tight fist opening. It was as if she'd been standing on a precipice and suddenly tipped forward. There was no point in feeling afraid. She was already falling, falling through the air, and her future, whatever it held, was rushing up to meet her.