Quotes About Adventure

Logistically, moving from Miami and New Orleans all the way to Seattle isn't the easiest thing. Really, for my dog, she was kind of the biggest hurdle to get here.

When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected.

Now I'm just loving the world of Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle so much. I really wouldn't want to go back into the world of Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling - where would the fun and adventure be in that?

I ate ostrich. I'm not very proud of it. I was going through a very experimental period and probably during foot and mouth. It was exquisite, but I felt very guilty.

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

I would never shop from the Internet or a catalogue; otherwise, how am I going to educate my eye? I just love going out and searching for new things.

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

I loved going on the road... I think that's something everybody ought to experience one day - not necessarily as an artist, but just to get out and see the country.

I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more than a few miles from the U.S. He'd never sailed - or designed a boat before.

We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.

Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.

I got to travel to some pretty awesome places, learn other people's customs, and see what works in their world differently than in ours.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.

There's something about being out here on the road that the hours aren't anything like what you're used to when you're at home.

My plan is to stay in New York for as long as I can and do some theater out here and just keep working creatively.

Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games.

I'll always be a Disneyland guy. I grew up going there, it's the original, but I love Disney World, I come out here all the time.

Everything that we start is something that we don't know what the outcome is going to be.

It's the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me.