Quotes About Adventure

I will mount a long wind some day and break the heavy waves, And set my cloudy sail straight and bridge the deep, deep sea.

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

She wouldn't have bothered to try to fix it. (her marriage) She would have let herself fall into something fresh and new and delicious.

Relax and enjoy the journey. The stream will carry you this way and that, but will carry you forward to where you need to go.

He hadn't left her for something better, but for something new.

She said that sometimes you had to be brave enough to "point your life in a new direction.

Madison rolled her eyes. "No. I won't care if people say mean things to me, because I'll be grown up. I can just say, 'Who cares? I'm going to France.' " Ah.

The risks were calculated. The risks were justified. No one ever ascended a mountain without risk.

As soon as she left the attic, she was picked up and swept along by the fast-running current of her life.

sometimes you had to be brave enough to "point your life in a new direction.

I'd pay a million dollars to be Alice and Elisabeth's age again for just one day. I'd dance like Olivia's butterfly and bite into crisp green apples and run across hot sand into the surf, and I'd walk, as far as I wanted, wherever I wanted, in big loping, leaping strides, with my head held high and my lungs filling with air. And I'd probably have sex!

then wandered off, probably to climb a ladder, because his sons had informed him that seventy was too old to climb ladders, so he liked to find excuses to climb them as often as possible.

If Janie Crowley had lived, she would have traveled and dieted, danced and cooked, laughed and cried, watched a lot of television and tried her very best.

A pile of books filled her lap. They were all the books she'd ever written, including foreign language editions. The books were open at the top like cereal boxes. Frances dipped her hand into each book and pulled out great handfuls of words to scatter across the sky. 'Got one!' said Sol, from the back of the sleigh,

Actually, what she remembered most about that trip to Berlin was kissing a handsome, brown-haired German boy in a nightclub. He kept taking ice cubes from his drink and running them across her collarbone, which at the time had seemed incredibly sexy, but now seemed unhygienic and sticky.

Connie had been far to busy having a good time, remembers Sophie.

She has that euphoric feeling you get at the airport after you've checked in your luggage. Nothing can stop your journey.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

Hijinxs and crazy shenanigans that'll leave you chuckling to the bewilderment of those around you - Love Romance Passion

Always and Everywhere a Book Is Waiting for Me

As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me -- and this is in retrospect -- that there was something primal, something right about it. Tarzan represented a pure being, somehow before the fall.

I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do.