Quotes About Adventure

I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.

I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and those that want to be astronauts. The astronomer, or the paleontologist, gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety. But then you never get to go into space

I told you why. If I don't do it now, I never will. I'll just be some office drone ten years from now, wishing I had done something interesting at least once in my life.

I thanked him and he asked me if my cape got caught on stuff when I was running and jumping, and I said, Sometimes.

a risk-free life is a life that's not worth living.

Deep down, very few of us want safety to suffocate freedom.

De a sors tovább ?z minket.

But she had to go to bed first, and all night she slept soundly on her bed of hay, dreaming of nothing but of shining mountains with red roses all over them, among which happy little Snowflake went leaping in and out.

Heidi, it's just as if we were in a high carriage and were going to drive straight into heaven.

New Chapter about New Things

In the corner near her grandfather's bed she saw a short ladder against the wall; up she climbed and found herself in the hayloft. There lay a large heap of fresh sweet-smelling hay, while through a round window in the wall she could see right down the valley.

Going up to the Alm-Uncle

echaba de menos poder correr al aire libre.

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

Ships and sails proper for the heavely air should be fashioned. Johannes Kepler to Galileo 1609

What a fine affair it would be if we could flit across the Atlantic as they say the angels do from planet to planet.

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

I'm heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities.

The three of us are always in danger," said Arlo. "That's sort of our thing.

It was like rushing forward in the dark forest without knowing what danger lurked in front of my face.

He looked up at the great grey peaks, some still topped by the remnants of the winter snow. He felt as close to happy as he ever got, the fittest he had been for a long time. His mind clear. Being in the mountains made him happy. He loved mountains. They were so much less trouble than people.

We swam in sunshine and in rain; we swam in the morning, when the sea was sluggish as soup, we swam at night, the water flowing over our arms like undulations of black satin; one afternoon we stayed in the water during a thunderstorm, and a fork of lightning struck the surface of the sea so closer to us we heard the crackle of it and smelt the burnt air.

Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.

If your library is not unsafe, it probably isn't doing its job.