Quotes About Adventure

We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...

There is no time for fear. It's much too interesting.

Meeya Meefla, where

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

Hunter and John [Belushi] both shared a sense of possibility, and they seemed to have no limits. There was no Governor of the night. It was like being off on adventures with Huck and Tom - everything was possible.

I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.

Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.

THE WONDERFUL EXPLOITS OF GRASSHOPPER.

Louisville, an hour after dark, is a carpet of gilt thumbtacks below them, with straight, twinkling lines like strings of beads leading out from it. Southeastward now, toward the Tennessee state-line. ("Jane Brown's Body")

She was ready to be a fugitive with him for the rest of her life - 'Whither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall be my people' - and when a Parisienne is ready to leave Paris behind forever, that's something. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

Adventure and anguish, horror and heaven were just around the corner, and we did not know.

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

You know what's really, powerfully sexy? A sense of humor. A taste for adventure. A healthy glow. Hips to grab on to. Openness. Confidence. Humility. Appetite. Intuition. … Smart-ass comebacks. Presence. A quick wit. Dirty jokes told by an innocent-looking lady. … A storyteller. A genius. A doctor. A new mother. A woman who realizes how beautiful she is.

bravery to the point of apparent foolishness.

I grew up in motion. I have never lived outside the Southwest, yet in my childhood I rarely had the same home or lived in the same state for more than a year or two at a time. Well before adulthood I believed that all was right with the world only when I was standing at the brink of every possibility, a voyage not yet taken unraveling before me.

Be prepared for a journey, but don't expect a destination.

Be prepared fpr a journey, but don't expect a destination.

Kids: If a bear is wearing a ranger hat, it's because he ate the ranger!