Quotes About Adventure

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

Sunshine is my quest.

What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

John Green, Looking for Alaska

This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.

I had never been to second base.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

There's two positions in snowboarding. One is looking cool and the other is DEAD!

I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen.

Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.

Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day.

Business is the most exciting game.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.

Just stay close to us. If we get in trouble, we'll kill everything.

Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids.

It's funny how one summer can change everything.

When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.

Neil Armstrong, that spaceman, he went to the moon but he ain't been back. It can't have been that good.

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.