Quotes About Adventure

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Forbes did, in fact, break new ground for women...She was an irrepressible and independent traveler who took risky and difficult trips, braved the hostility of the colonial officials and bureaucrats of the British empire, and invaded the male sphere of exploration, using charm, chutzpah--and her extensive network of establishment connections--to get where she wanted to go. (From the Sahara to Samarkand: Selected Travel Writings of Rosita Forbes, 1919-1937)

Dennis hit him with the [Sheri] Tepper. It was a hardback book, six hundred pages of wonder and adventure and a little preachiness mixed in.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.

Adventure, and not being provided for so cold a Voyage, were all frozen to death; the young Lady onely, by the light of her Beauty, the heat of her Youth, and Protection of the Gods, remaining alive: Neither was it a wonder that the men did freeze to death; for they were not onely driven to the very end or point of the Pole of that World, but even to another Pole of another World, which

She had sold their flat and moved to the east. She hadn't wanted to live in Highgate on her own. She'd wanted a new place, a new life, for what was left of life.

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

when journeying with God some of the best parts of any pilgrimage are the detours.

The Fairy Queen has sent you to do brave deeds in this world. That High City that you see is in another world. Before you climb the path to it and hang your shield on its wall, go down into the valley and fight the dragon that you were sent to fight.

That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

To move to a new place -- that's the greatest excitement. For a while you believe you carry nothing with you -- all is canceled from before, or cauterized, and you begin again and nothing will go wrong this time.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

And, Heriot's hand on Cayley's shoulder, they set off through the moonlight midnight orchard, moving deeper and deeper into their overlapping fairy tales, vigilant and wary, for there were no safe places for the Magician and the Warrior.

For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort zone, take you on a dangerous journey, a journey into the unknown, and then bring you back to the centre of yourself.

Don't grow up, Urchin, whatever you do. Definitely a bad idea.

Oh, and Fionn's down there trying to teach her frog to talk. Away you go, Corr.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!

We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now