Quotes About Adventure

Defoe's Moll Flanders, Fielding's Tom Jones and Johnson's moralizing fable, Rasselas.

He who follows the feathered inhabitants of the forest and plains, however rough or tangled the paths may be, seldom fails to obtain the objects of his pursuit, provided he be possessed of due enthusiasm and perseverance.

I never feel as fully awake as when I'm in New York.

I never feel as fully awake as when I'm in NY.

I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.

In Endymion I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.

Let the winged Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home.

Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry;

La vita è un'avventura da vivere, non un problema da risolvere.

Apparently I am pushing a jinx about the streets. I am certain that I can do better with some other wagon. A new cart, a new start.

to pursue the gold deposits that were presumed to exist in the great North American territory of Louisiana. There was no evidence of the gold, but this, as ever in such episodes, was no time for doubters or doubting

I jounced the limb.

When they torpedo the troopship," he shouted, " you can't stand around admiring the view. Jump!

Alright, Colby. How we wanna play this? In through the skylight? Side entrance? Sneak in the back? Are you kidding? Fuck all that shit. Poyo don't sneak.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think Wow how did I get here?

Turn left at Greenland....

todo lo que puede ocurrir, pero es audaz

Casanova was a librarian.

The opening lines of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat are: 'There were four of us.

Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

At the top of the page is a photo of sunrise as seen from space, and in between are the words "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." Brand intended the photo as a way to describe living a life open to serendipity. As Jobs put it, "I have always wished that for myself.

George Sears, called Nessmuk, whose "Woodcraft," published in 1884, was the first American book on forest camping, and is written with so much wisdom, wit, and insight that it makes Henry David Thoreau seem alien, humorless, and French.

Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.

For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read—and how he wants to write.