Quotes About Adventure

If you stayed at home, you might not get the opportunity to go to that place again. But if you went, you could always com back.

they would soon be old enough to read The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, and eventually Iris Murdoch and Alan Bennett. They could all be readers, and maybe even uncommon ones.

Well, what were your favorite books?" "When?" "As a young girl." "Nancy Drew. I read dozens of them. I loved the idea of a girl detective.

Christopher Isherwood's Christopher and His Kind,

There are certain books that I mean to read and keep stacked by my bedside. I even take them on trips. Some of my books should be awarded their own frequent-flier miles, they've traveled so much.

questing is more important than finding, and a journey is more important than the mere arrival at a destination

Life is lived on the edge.

Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story.

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

Wat is een held? Iemand die straffeloos onvoorzichtig is geweest.

Door mijn voetstappen te tellen (...), is het me toch gelukt zonder kompas weer thuis te komen. is dat geen succes? Is dit niet het succes waarop mijn hele leven mij heeft voorbereid?

Literatuur is de neerslag of het verslag van een geestelijk avontuur in een taal die eigen, levend en origineel is.

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!

Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together, Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather!

Up the airy mountain,Down the rushy glen,We daren't go a-huntingFor fear of little men.

their chests. Mr. Ryu tells us to get off the bus and go inside

You have deliberately tasted two worms and you can leave Oxford by the next town drain.

No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.

Vay haline, bilmemesi gerekeni bilmek isteyenin ve gücünü aÅŸan bir iÅŸe giriÅŸen gözüpek kiÅŸinin.

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.

seen as soon as the reefs, from a ship's mast

An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.