Quotes About Adventure

The Gate is Straight, Deep and Wide; Break On Through to the other side.

Let's swim to the moon Let's climb through the tide Surrender to the waiting worlds That lap against our side.

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it

the west the best ...

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

We started into the tunnel on our bikes, but quickly dismounted once the darkness set in.

taking long rides on his bike

I rode a streetcar to the edge of the city limits, then I started to walk, swinging the old thumb whenever I saw a car coming.

Sector 7 by David Wiesner (Clarion, 1997)

I have always learned the most about the world by going to places I was never supposed to be and being with people I was never supposed to meet.

Only fools venture where the spirits dread

Well, she's walking through the clouds, with a circus mind that's running wild.

So down and down and down and down And down and down we go Hurry my darling we mustn't be late For the show Neptune champion games to an aqua World so very dear Right this way smiles a mermaid I can hear Atlantis full of cheer.

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.

That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

Some of its magic, Some of its tragic…But I had a good life all the way

Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.