Quotes About Adventure

Thinking about all of this, I feel a sudden rush of anticipation, an abstract yearning. Unfamiliar as it is, I do remember it. I experienced this feeling as a little girl the night before Christmas, and later when I was applying to college, and even later when I moved to New York. It's a longing for things to come, possibilities unfolding before me, the charged expectation of change.

It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.

But finally we found the place—an Irish pub, as seedy as the roughest ones on the backstreets of Galway.

You and me-we've whored together. We've fought together.And I still dunna understand how ye always seems to know where the money is hidden and the liquor is stored and the scandals are richest.' It's a gift.

I've never been to a race car race before.

Live each day like your hair's on fire!

we wouldn't offer our child just one kind of book if we wanted him to become an avid reader: we can learn how to do the same with food.

There are many wonders in this world that will remain quite beyond your reach unless, in fact, you reach for them.

As we head to our last dinner, on a yacht, I am oddly nostalgic for that earlier, more guerrilla Cannes. I wonder if I'd sleep on the floor to get it back.

Norma Wallace stood on a bed of pine needles deep in the Mississippi woods

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

Uncharted territory," I said. "The parts on the maps of our lives that we don't understand. In cartographer's language they call these places sleeping beauties.

An afternoon drive down back roads, looking for something I couldn't put a name to. A route to some place where maybe my true life existed.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.

a big boy did it and ran away

She claims I've got a habit of finding dangerous situations and effortlessly making them worse.

When they drove past it on the motorway, he used to fantasise that his parents were about to turn their vehicle towards the car park and surprise him, say the boot was full of secretly packed luggage and they were heading off for a fortnight. When he had kids of his own, he'd told himself, he'd surprise them that way for real.

It was that he seemed...content to live in a wholly unexplored world.

She wishes them not luck or money; they will have both, as much as they want, or is necessary. Instead she wishes them fearlessness in all things: in love, yes, but also in work, in expectation, in the leap from the high rocks, in looking back, and in forgetting.

At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of 2 leagues. They handed all sails and set the treo, which is the mainsail without bonnets, and lay-to waiting for daylight Friday, when they arrived at an island of the Bahamas that was called in the Indians' tongue Guanahanä [San Salvador].

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Misattributed: Actually by André Gide.)