Quotes About Adventure

The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that... adventure travel.

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

See, life is a journey and every chapter is very interesting.

Everything happening around me is very random. I am enjoying the phase, as the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

The great thing about pastry is there are so many avenues - it's very hard to get bored doing this.

There's no destination. The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful.

I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.

I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.

From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.

From a very early age, I knew I wanted to be Carl Denham.

As we've lost this idea of pilgrimage, we've lost this idea of human beings walking for a very, very long time. It does change you.

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

I go where the sound of thunder is.

There was a point in my life where I either wanted to be an astronaut, an actor, a veterinarian, or a pirate. I just thought being in space would be really cool, but then you have to have 20/20 vision, which I don't have, so there.

Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.

It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

I've been on camels before, lumbering slowly through the desert - not hugely exciting, but I enjoyed the 'Lawrence of Arabia' vibe.

I've been to Australia several times, and I just like the earthiness; it's part of the culture. That's a really good vibe to be around.

I like the pirate and gypsy vibe. That's always been my thing.

I love coming out to Australia, if it weren't so far away I would go all the time. I've worked with a lot of people down there so I love Australia, I have a lot of great relationships down there... it's such a great vibe.