Quotes About Adventure

The surprising thing is where I'd found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend.

I was one of those heart seeds us kids had heard about in class. I was at some earlier stage of a journey that would deliver me to another place, to another life, into another way of being. I just didn't know where or when.

Flirting with death is the spice of life.

Why wait for the weekend to have fun

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

In my experience, "what the hell" is generally the most interesting decision.

Love is like skydiving without a parachute.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

Total strangers trying to kill me make me feel right at home.

As Freya Stark herself had put it: 'To be treated with consideration is, in the case of female travellers, too often synonymous with being prevented from doing what one wants.

I loved that the Iranians never quite did what you thought they were going to do, or even, what you wanted them to do. The whole damn place reeked of cheeky bad-boy charm, and to this, I was not immune.

The two of us with our scrappy motor and no idea what was going to happen next, a Persian version of the Blues Brothers scene – there's 106 miles to Qom, we've got a full tank of benzin, half a pack of pistachios, it's sunny out, and I'm wearing a hijab. Bezan berim!

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

He felt that his soul had remained among the pirates – he was young and from the country and still ignorant of Love's piracies.

Red Riding Hood ran from her wolf," he told her with an edge of amusement. "Red Riding Hood didn´t know what the hell she was missing

Belle]'d fallen in love with him at fifteen, galloping down clay roads with the leaves of autumn swirling around them. They'd discovered the nooks and crannies of passion in his mother's darkened parlor on a rolling sea of dark wine velvet, amid a flotilla of lacy white antimacassars...

Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

Here we are and there we go:---but where?

El amor halla sus caminos, aunque sea a través de senderos por donde ni los lobos se atreverían a seguir a su presa." Lord Byron Rosas al anochecer

But he who seeks the flowers of truth Must quit the garden for the field

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.