Quotes About Adventure

I knew what it was like to be the center of Drew Cavanagh's universe. How her regard could make you feel like the brightest, shiniest, sharpest, most perfect version of yourself. And how she could turn an ordinary day into an adventure.

And I could see her, after the Sunday we'd spent together, with a plastic bag full of olives and almonds and baba ghanoush swinging from her arm, young and pretty and heading into her brilliant future, smiling and saying, This was the best day of my life.

But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don't have the slightest wish to be intrepid. I don't want to prove myself to myself or anyone else. I don't care if no one thinks me brave or hardy. I have no concern at all that I did not have whatever it is I should have had to take a dive out of a plane or off a building. None of that matters to me in the least.

There is nothing better for a child than to grow up at the ends of the earth.

Boredom makes you do crazy things.

Over the course of the next three years, Hirschmann shuffled between four countries, enlisted to fight in a civil war, joined an underground resistance, and got a doctoral degree.

it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

What do you think this is, a Matthew Reilly novel?" "Whether

You know, I've nearly been killed by a poisonous flying lizard-snake, and came close to becoming a squid-croc snack. And you nearly died from stubbing your toe?

I guess you gotta try the rest before you settle down with the best.

Viitorul exist? ?i sunt nerabd?toare s?-l tr?iesc.

I never knew you played the banjo! cried Harris and I, in one breath. Not exactly, replied George: but it's very easy, they tell me; and I've got the instruction book! From Three Men in a Boat

George suggested walking back to Henley and assaulting a policeman, and so getting a night's lodging in the station-house.  But then there was the thought, "Suppose he only hits us back and refuses to lock us up!" We could not pass the whole night fighting policemen.  Besides, we did not want to overdo the thing and get six months.

Noi eravamo come i cavalieri dell'antica leggenda, che veleggiavano lungo un mistico lago verso l'ignoto regno del crepuscolo, verso la sconfinata terra del tramonto. Ma non arrivammo nella terra del tramonto, andammo a finire contro il barchino da pesca sul quale stavano pescando i tre vecchi.

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

When George is hanged, Harris wil be the worst packer in this world

Harris said: "If you never try a new thing, how can you tell what it's like?  It's men such as you that hamper the world's progress.  Think of the man who first tried German sausage!

There were four of us--George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.

Transcribed from the 1889 J.

Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?

Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.

What a long, strange trip it's been.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

If you're a surfer, you just want to surf. You don't know if anyone's going to see you, and you don't really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.