Quotes About Adventure

Live large, because there are no extra days. -Tilt Family Motto

In other words, I continue to think like an amateur as frequently as possible. GOING IT ALONE

Around about now, young John Owen comes out of the shack lugging my old musket from the War. At six years of age, our youngest boy already knew his business. Not a word, just brings the shooting iron somewhat closer so's he don't waste powder, then hoists her up, set to haul back on the trigger. I believe his plan was to shoot this feller, get the story later.

From Kathmandu there is a road through Gorkha Country to Pokhara, in the central foothills; farther west, no roads exist at all. The road winds through steep gorges of the Trisuli River, now in torrent; dirty whitecaps filled the rapids, and the brown flood was thickened every now and again by thunderous rockslides down the walls of the ravine.

Butter tea and wind pictures, the Crystal Mountain, and blue sheep dancing on the snow - it's quite enough! Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful?" ? Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

free life" as described by a mountaineer: "The mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as breath.

It was exciting at first... Then it became routine. I guess everything does, even if it's dangerous.

steal anything.

YOUTH is indeed wasted on the Young and Adventurous.

Something piqued his curiosity and he wanted to know more. There was no order to it, neither in his mind nor in his filing system. He would plunge into a subject with cavalier disregard for its chronological development. And

do things to discover what to do.

And then a prince will come along and say the magic words and three ravens will give you the magic tokens and a fish will carry you on his back

She had been like a roller coaster aficionado for whom tame county fair roller coasters were as good as the ones that spun you upside down and dropped you so fast your eyes turned red. It was all just a ride.

To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story.

ARTISTIC CREATION is a voyage into the unknown.

A prerequisite for finding our way through any story or novel is to be lost: the journey can't begin until we've been set down in a place somehow unfamiliar.

We may become the first species to spread beyond the limits of the Earth and colonize other planets.

Long ago I left heroics to the heroes

For a journey without challenge, has no meaning; one without purpose, has no soul.

One of the ancient functions of pilgrimage is to wake us from our slumber.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. SØREN KIERKEGAARD

Winning is about moving into the unknown and creating something new.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. GEORGE MOORE

We watch Paracelsus in Basle as though seeing a man run headlong toward a precipice. Like an indestructible lunatic, he will do so again and again throughout his life.