Quotes About Adventure

The earth is enjoyed by heroes"—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fear.

Kiddo—here's a problem. We've got witches, we've got Evil, we've got an orphan, and we've got a kidnapping. What's the deal?

That's the trouble with a Trueheart House. It doesn't believe in being cautious when it comes to defeating evil.

Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known.

I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

She knew that nothing she could imagine could approach the strangeness of the expidition's first contact with non-Terrestrial beings. She could not predict what would happen. It was the sense of immersing herself in strangeness that she sought, knowing she would have to meet the reality with equanimity, and wing it from there.

Haydi yürüyelim, masal anlat?c?lar?, yüreÄŸin özlediÄŸi yem her ne ise ona sar?lal?m ve korkmayal?m. Her ÅŸey canl?, her ÅŸey gerçek ve yeryüzü ayaklar?m?z alt?ndaki y?k?nt? sadece.

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.

I guess I had never bothered to consider that there might such a thing as a boy, but now that I had found one, I thought it was just about the most wonderful concept in the world. He smelled of mud and sugar and an animal I'd never scented before, and a faint meaty odor clung to his fingers, so I licked them.

That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.

Being a repo man requires what Milt calls "nerves of stupidity":

The truck growled and roared and I was pretty sure it was going to eat me.

This one is a rocket, Bailey," Ethan told me, showing me a toy shaped like a stick. But what use was a sticklike thing that smelled too bad to chew? I turned my nose away. "We're going to land one on the moon one day, and then people will live there, too. Do you want to be a space dog?

Let me drive. You wait until I get up to fifty-five miles per hour, and then jump out,

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

Almost anything can be found in a book.

It's the fear of the unknown that keeps a person from starting

every new experience and in every new environment an individual will feel some degree of fear.

if there is something to win and nothing to lose from asking a question then ask whatever it takes

If you look at a dog following the advice of his nose, he traverses a patch of land in a completely unplottable manner. And he invariably finds what he's looking for.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.