Quotes About Adventure

Neil S. Plakcy

This was it, his life of crime and recreation about to officially start.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

You know, the future's a huge, gigantic place. I have no idea what's going on out there, I'm just going to walk into it and see what happens.

She wished to find out about this hazardous business of "passing," this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one's chance in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not entirely friendly.

A Walk on the Wild Side

Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.

Paul laughed then and Anna knew he was happy because she was, and felt the rush she always did when she realized how much he loved her. SIX The ledge they followed was rapidly narrowing and the river had grown ribbon-thin far below them.

you use your whole body like you did when you played as a kid. Grown-up amusements don't allow for crawling and wriggling, getting good and muddy, and tearing the knees of your pants.

Part of her soul ... gloried in the sheer bodacious unnaturalness of it. Putting a great blue-green water park smack down in the red desert complete with cactus, trading posts, genuine Navajo Indians, and five kinds of rattlesnakes was theater of the absurd at its most outrageous.

Round the next corner and in the next street Adventure lies in wait for you. Oh, who can tell what you may meet Round the next corner and in the next street! Could life be anything but sweet When all is hazardous and new? Round the next corner and in the next street Adventure lies in wait for you. That

Fishermen know that if they wish to catch big fish, they must fish in deep waters; if you would catch a large measure of life, you must leave behind you the shallow waters with its many reefs and barriers and launch out into the deep blue waters where the big ones play. To catch the large manifestations of life you must enter into deeper and freer states of consciousness; only in these depths do the big expressions of life live.

The great thinkers of the eighteenth century were also pioneering tourists

the gypsies never journeyed toward an end, for motion was an end in itself

She had Googled psychogeography, just to make sure she wasn't getting it wrong. It was, she discovered, about playfulness, about drifting around urban environments, about getting away from your normal routes, about opening yourself up to randomness.

The seventy-four-gun Defence took advantage of the dark to have a closer look:

day that lives still, in the annals of the Royal Navy.

Whatever doubts there may have been about their seamanship, there were none as to their courage.

contained in sealed orders that were not to be opened until they were at sea.

running his dividers across a map of the Atlantic and calculating how many leagues his ships could cover each day.

he would have to go due south instead, around the outside of Majorca and Ibiza – pirate waters,

Villeneuve's flagship.

He could even have come by air, as individual balloonists already had.

The ocean extends an invitation to the swimmer that it withholds from the person who has never learned to swim. With every skill we learn, the world reshapes itself to reveal greater possibilities.