Quotes About Adventure

Nine And Three-quarters

He eats gillyweed

Mischief Managed

4 Privet Drive

Queerditch Marsh

The Sword Of Godric Gryffindor

Through the Trapdoor

Newt Scamander

Wizarding chess

The winged keys

The Boy Who Lived

Madam Hooch

Some people think 1963's a long time ago; when a dead American in the jungle was an event, a grim thrilling novelty. It was spookwar then, adventure; not exactly soldiers, not even advisors yet, but Irregulars, working in remote places with little direct authority, acting out their fantasies with more freedom than most men ever know.

It may be a dangerous and confusing job. But it's mine to do…

Bicycles are the world's greatest invention, objects of beauty, works of art, the tools of the trade. Most cyclists' initial attraction to the sport has at least something to do with bikes themselves, and this is something that never leaves them.

Hanging out with Sam or any two-year-old is basically one big suicide watch. Their mission is to find one new way after another of offing themselves - piss in an electric socket, lick a pit bull's nose, chase an ice cream truck into traffic - and your job as a parent is to step in before it happens.

If you don't take risks, there's no room for luck. I took a chance. I got lucky.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool, or you go out in the ocean.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — NORMAN COUSINS

The older I got the more I appreciated the role of travel as a stimulus to memories, and the way in which journeys even to new places were somehow always awakening memories of places seen in an ever-receding past.

Come sail with me and you will see nothing can hold you down!

All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create. -from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)

Donald checked the box beside Venezuela on his list and kept scrolling down.

Across some of the harshest and most difficult terrain in the world, led by a man who already had a price on his head.