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Quotes About Adventure

escaped from the theater by running into the adjacent fire station, sliding down the firemen's pole, and escaping in a police car while one of the engines rushed out to create a diversion.
~ Philip Norman
Friends don't leave friends behind to wash dishes for yetis!
~ Philip Reeve
These are new worlds, Zen. We don't have to be what we were any more. We can be anything that we want. We can be humans together. - Nova
~ Philip Reeve
What's your plan?" "There isn't one," said Hester. "I'm just making it up as I go along.
~ Philip Reeve
Friends don't leave friends to wash dishes for yetis.
~ Philip Reeve
We'll be all right!" she said. "We'll be all right now! Let's go up and find out whom we've hitched a lift with!
~ Philip Reeve
No matter how routine the commute seems, no two trips are ever the same.
~ Philip Toshio Sudo
Each trip is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
~ Philip Toshio Sudo
For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
~ Philippa Gregory
I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.
~ Philippa Gregory
I sense the ambition and ease of a generation that has grown up on a much smaller planet. Those who consider travel an ordinary adventure rather than a grand expedition, for whom a quiet life is considered a slow death. I see this child of the world and can't help but think how fate probably would have played out differently had his father been driven by the same curiosity. If he had not lived in another day. If he had known how to free himself.
~ Philippe Besson
Cette chambre est un navire. Un marie à bord duquel nous naviguons, sur des mers calmes ou déchainées, à la recherche de rivages paisibles ou accidentés. Il y a des soleils impressionnants et puis des cours de sirocco. Il y a des étendues d'eau à perte de vue et puis, brusquement, la côté. Il y a ce roulis incessant, qui nous berce ou nous secoue, qui nous accompagne toujours. Nous sommes des marins égarés, à bord d'un bateau ivre.
~ Philippe Besson
Cette chambre est un navire. Un navire à bord duquel nous naviguons, sur des mers calmes ou déchainées, à la recherche de rivages paisibles ou accidentés. Il y a des soleils impressionnants et puis des cours de sirocco. Il y a des étendues d'eau à perte de vue et puis, brusquement, la côté. Il y a ce roulis incessant, qui nous berce ou nous secoue, qui nous accompagne toujours. Nous sommes des marins égarés, à bord d'un bateau ivre.
~ Philippe Besson
Les premiers rêves de mon enfance ont été des rêves de marin.
~ Philippe Besson
Arthur, we are living the greatest adventure that ever was.
~ Philippe Besson
You must not fall. / When you lose your balance, resist for a long time before turning yourself toward the earth. Then jump. / You must not force yourself to stay steady. You must move forward.
~ Philippe Petit
Life should be lived on the edge. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.
~ Philippe Petit
On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know. On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.
~ Philippe Petit
When I see three oranges, I juggle; when I see two towers, I walk!
~ Philippe Petit
Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.
~ Philippe Petit
It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously.
~ Philippe Petit
My destiny no longer has me conquering the highest toowers in the world, but rather the void they protect. This cannot be measured.
~ Philippe Petit
Would anyone but a crazed bicephalous being, half engineer, half poet, willingly shackle himself to a venture of such magnitude? I am prisoner of my dream.
~ Philippe Petit
Believe marvels exist around you, inside others, within yourself. Go search for them. Gallop through life and without dismounting your horse manage (like a Cossack!) to pick up bits of otherworldliness lying on the path. Feed your imagination that way. That way, shape your destiny.
~ Philippe Petit