Quotes About Adventure

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD...I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.

Age considers; youth ventures.

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

Live in danger. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

So one day as a kid I was at the local Zoo. I was bored and kept pestering my Dad to go and play. Eventually he agreed, took me over to the lion enclosure, threw me in and said: There ya go, play dead...

So I said, 'Where do you want to go for your anniversary?' She said: 'I want to go somewhere I've never been before.' I said, 'Try the kitchen.'

When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.

A guy at work went in for a competition and won a trip to China. He's out there now...trying to win a trip back!

I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.