Quotes About Adventure

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Do it while you're young. You may never have another chance to do anything this stupid again!

Robert Louis Stevenson presents a character who, in London at night, is astonished 'to walk for such a long time in such a complex decor without encountering even the slightest shadow of an adventure.' The urbanists of the twentieth century will have to construct adventures. The simplest Situationist act would consist in abolishing all the memories of the employment of time of our epoch. It is an epoch that, up until now, has lived far below its means.

Sometimes I think the cover of a book as a door to another world...but other times I think of it as an escape hatch from this one. I guess it's the same thing.

He says that all that happens when you go far, far away is that you discover you've brought yourself along.

the kind of love that picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio...

Doua drumuri se desparteau intr-o padure, iar eu... Eu am luat-o pe cel mai putin batatorit, Si asta a schimbat complet lucrurile.

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.

Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads...

Well I don't know but I've been told, you never slow down, you never grow old.

You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

Life is an adventure," Karen's mother used to tell her, "so be sure you experience it when it happens." It was one of Grace Tyler's favorites, one of several rules in her "Mom" arsenal, along with the ones about always having umbrellas and clean underwear and quarters for the pay phone.

One must go somewhere, I suppose, it is abominable to keep still in nothingness

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.

A man…progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.*1

As you plunge into learning some art or skill, the world around you appears new and bursting with infinite horizons. Each day brims with new discoveries as you take your tentative first steps, slowly pushing the bounds of exploration. You make mistakes, but even these are empowering, because they are mistakes you have never made before.

Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair

slept all night in the cedar grove, i was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin' for the holy grail, but there ain't nothin' sweeter than ridin' the rails

I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is a world of adventure, a new galaxy. I'm big on adventure. But I don't assume that just because the word cyber is being used as a prefix, doesn't give it anymore value or credence. Cyber relationships have the illusion of intimacy, sometimes with the absence of intimacy. Is it better to have a conversation in a café or on the telephone?

using parking meters as walking sticks.

Fishin' for a good time starts with throwin' in your line.

Let me fall out of a window with confetti in my hair deal out jacks or better on a blanket by the stairs I'll tell you all my secrets but I'll lie about my past and send me off to bed forevermore