Quotes About Adventure

I just love all this,' Walt says. 'The sights, the smells, making the effort and pushing yourself and getting something that's really hard to get. I'll fly on a plane and people will look out the window at thirty thousand feet and say, 'Isn't this view good enough for you?' And I say no, it's not good enough. I didn't earn it. In the mountains, I earn it.

That was the thing about Levantin: he loved the birds, but he really loved the places they brought him. When you spend your career in the confines of a gray suit, the pipits at dawn above timberline are even more wondrous.

The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.

Wen grinned and I felt a warm glow and an odd dizzy sensation. And then I remembered something my dad once wrote me about falling in love. He said the phrase was apt because falling is exactly what it can feel like, as if you've finally allowed yourself to let go of some safety bar you didn't even know you were clinging to, and suddenly you find yourself tumbling towards the exciting unknown.

Fleshing out a world, creating and playing a host of secondary character, arbitrating rules and crafting scenarios can be difficult tasks. Nonetheless, the chance to make a dream come alive is well worth the trouble. When the other characters carve their niches in the world, you give them the world itself.

The afterlife can be an adventure if one can supersede the gloom and sidestep the pitfalls.

Changelings inhabit a world filled perilous adventure, nightmarish monsters, and legendary treasures.

I like stepping into the future. Therefore, I look for doorknobs.

The book you don't read is a journey forsaken.

A reader is a voyager, an armchair adventurer, travelling to different times, places, inhabiting different minds and worlds. What fun.

If you write a novel a great adventure awaits you. And like any strange and wondrous journey, there will be uncertainty, even fear. Just keep going

When I read, I visit other worlds. When I write, I create other worlds.

Reading is a great way to travel anywhere in the world without making reservations. It's a trip to wherever you wish to go.

The writing life: frustration, fear, independence, exhilaration, worry, adventure, a sense of the unknown.

Reading: the best way I know to inhabit other lives, travel to distant places, have great adventures, gain knowledge and experience the world.

Writing creates new people & worlds. When you read, you enter into new people & worlds. When you read and write, it's the best of all worlds.

There's no such thing as a dull life. Every life is a saga.

I was a kite miles out to sea. I was soaring without a string.

I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's like wrestling with an old friend, tumbling underneath then coming up for air.

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

I look at the trees and the birds and I know it's not true. I'm not yet sure how to do it, but I'm going to learn.

I am going to meet a beautiful girl today," Pino said, wagging his finger at the scarlet, threatening sky. "And we are going to fall in mad, tragic love and go on grand adventures with music and food and wine and intrigue every day, all day long.

I saved myself," Pino whispered. "He kind of came along for the ride.