Quotes About Adventure

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

We were in our early twenties, playing and traveling, and didn't have to answer to anybody. It was the kind of life where if you had a problem today, you could be five hundred miles away from it the next day.

Plain and simple, skydiving is all about controlled terror, and I love it.

All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

Advance twice, set to partners… change lobsters, and retire in same order.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.Beware the Jabberwock, my son!The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shunThe frumious Bandersnatch!

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing.

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

The New World vision seemed to enlarge and exalt every human possibility, even though the explorers and pioneers, in turning their backs on the Old World, did not in fact leave the 'cruel sword' or the 'ignominious plague' behind them, for their smallpox, measles, and tuberculosis decimated those natives whom their guns did not exterminate.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.

When you live in a house in L.A., you feel so isolated. You urge yourself to go and find the nooks and crannies where people are having a good time.

Some players tell me that since retiring they've had the urge to go somewhere every three days. To satisfy that urge, they may even jump in the car and drive around the block.

I left England when I was 19 for two years travelling on my own and since then I've always had an urge to go abroad.

I will say, if you are planning a seaplane expedition anytime soon I urge you to brace yourselves.

I love airports because funny things always happen at them. They're giant complexes full of urgency, seriousness, and confusion. Where am I supposed to be? Which way do I go? And that's just the staff.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.

I got in trouble in film school at USC because one of my Super-8 movies there, in the first semester, involved a snowmobile chase scene. I made an action scene, and they were like, 'That wasn't what you were supposed to be doing.'