Quotes About Adventure

It's not a matter of if we're going to go to Mars, it's a matter of when.

HAVE FOUND HIM STOP, it read. WILL YOU COME BACK QUERY ROGER.

Highway 1 could be today's Route 66 with a view.

In Bed with the Wrangler

Tolkien imagined The Lord of the Rings as a book very much like The Hobbit: aimed at a young audience, built around humor and pranks, and modeled on the structure of a folktale or fairy story. He even called it "the Hobbit sequel" or "the new Hobbit." He

Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, sooner or later— probably sooner— I'd look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I'd be disappointed in you if I didn't see you." "Are you off to the iceberg today?" Sophie retorted.

Learn to drive? Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.

Howl said, I think we ought to live happily ever after, and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would make a good deal more eventful than any story made it sound, though she was determined to try. It should be hair-raising, added Howl. And you'll exploit me, Sophie said. And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me, added Howl.

I don't think I will get married," Polly said as she stood up. "I'm going to train to be a hero instead.

Sophie and Howl were living - somewhat quarrelsomely it must be confessed, although they were said to be happiest that way - in the moving castle again

After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.

All I did was ask you for a role-playing game. You never warned me I'd be pitched into it for real! And I asked you for hobbits on a grail quest, and not one hobbit have I seen!

But I want to read a book ! Charmain protested.

In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist

In the study, The Book of Palimpsest was, for some reason, now open at A Spell to Find Yourself a Handsome Prince. Charmain shook her head and closed the book. Who needs a prince? she said.

Howl said, "I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more eventful than any story made it sound, though she was determined to try.

You can't be fussy when you're off to seek your fortune.

I've been feeling rather bloodthirsty lately, and saving the world seemed a good way to use it.

Diana Wynne Jones

Pero quería hacer algo, no estaba segura de qué, algo que fuera un poco mas interesante que adornar sombreros.

Yedi fersahl?k çizme ve görünmezlik pelerini gibi ÅŸeylerin sahiden var olduÄŸu Ingary ülkesinde üç k?z kardeÅŸin en büyüÄŸü olarak doÄŸmak büyük talihsizliktir. Üçünüz de k?smetinizi aramaya ç?karsan?z, ilk olarak ve en kötü ÅŸekilde senin kaybedeceÄŸini herkes bilir.

And seeing clearly that his princesses would not be able to walk on air as we djinns do, he first ordered me to steal a certain moving castle belonging to a wizard in this land of Ingary in which to house his brides, and then he ordered me to commence stealing princesses.

Ä°lginç ÅŸeyler oluyordu, ama daima baÅŸkalar?na oluyordu.

Sophie lut: « Va prendre l'étoile tombée Et fais enfanter la mandragore, cette racine pure. Dis-moi où sont donc les années écoulées Ou qui du diable le sabot fend. Apprends-moi à entendre des sirènes le chant Ou à retenir de l'envie les morsures Et trouve céans Quel bon vent Permet à l'esprit honnête d'aller de l'avant. Décide de ce qu'il en est Et le second couplet toi-mémé écriras. »