Quotes About Adventure

I prefer to doubt everything. Such a disposition does not preclude a resolute character. On the contrary, as far as I am concerned, I always advance more boldly when I don't know what is waiting me for me. After all, nothing worse than death can happen-and death you can't escape!

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

If you wait on luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

A solitary sail that risesWhite in the blue mist on the foam—What is it in far lands it prizes?What does it leave behind at home?

The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel.

WHEN daylight came to the forecabin, and percolated dimly through the sails covering the holes in the deck on to the dank jumble that lay higgledy-piggledy throughout the ship, we set about breakfast.

He grew up and later lived with an insatiable wanderlust. He always carried a rug with him and used to say, "My home is where my rug is"; he spent the better part of his life among tribes so wild that, after shaking hands, he always had to count his fingers. Only illness provided some sort of island of peace in his life. As soon as he fell ill, he would forget every other language save his own.

Money can't buy happiness, but it helps you look for it in more places.

The villain still pursued her.

This was her first time in such a place, and she decided she never wanted to stay anywhere else. Yet in her head, Casey envisioned a meter, like a taxi meter—clicking, clicking, clicking speedily ahead.

Learning was like playing

I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.

I think that's the lesson of this story: you never know what is going to happen.

As a kid, I was curious but not remotely adventurous, if that makes sense.

It 's time to stop running away and start running towards something

Rune: "They're getting away!" Thatz: "Our Dragon Knights honor is at stake! Let's get 'em!" Rath: "'Dragon Knights honor'? Really?

you cannot remain on your meditation cushion forever. You must go out and explore life as well.

Don't be afraid to explore; Without exploration there are no discoveries. Don't be afraid of partial solutions; Without the tentative there is no accomplishment.

Life is a constant series of opportunities. If we don't reach out for things, if we don't take advantage of what comes our way, then we cannot be in harmony with the essential nature of life.

El retrato de ese momento explica qué llena la vida del explorador: lo que importa no es tanto el destino como acercarse a él.

La estampa del viajero en motocicleta es siempre la de un jinete de paso con la que los críos sueñan.

Por fin era yo haciendo de yo y mirando con mis ojos la carretera, los árboles, la puesta de sol. Respiré aliviado. Volvía a reconocerme. Pensé en que yo siempre había usado la motocicleta para alejarme del grupo, para ser individuo.

I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.

I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.