Quotes About Adventure

A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.

Relationship is not all about starting but how it goes.

Dead pirates didn't get to spend their booty. Dead pirates didn't get to shake their booty, either. Bummer.

Labeled like parcels—Caroline Wendy Willow and Nicholas Peter Willow—only with no address to be sent to. None of them, not even the teachers, knew where they were going. "That's part of the adventure," Carrie's mother had said, and not just to cheer them up; it was her nature to look on the bright side. If she found herself in hell, Carrie thought now, she'd just say, "Well, at least we'll be warm .

there was also something in me that felt contained there; that needed a different setting in which to grow. It was perhaps a mark of my arrogance and immaturity that I believed I had to leave in order to do so.

He thought of Darwin sleeping out on the pampas during his Beagle trip, a middle-class white kid travelling the world, the first of the backpackers. It was only afterwards, really, that he had made any sense of what he had seen. Alex wondered what, in the fullness of time, he himself would make sense of, what small, crucial detail might be lodging itself in his brain that would shake his life to its foundations.

The experience of being empty, uncluttered by memories and expectations; it is like the happiness of open spaces, of being young, of having all the time and energy for doing things, for discovery, for adventure.

Life's not easy, try romancing with it.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

The only person to ever play golf on the moon was astronaut Alan Shepard. His golf ball was never found.

like most people of the time, that North America

What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.

I am like a leaf on a river, riding along the top of the water, not quite floating, not quite drowning. So I can't stop, and I can't control the direction I am going. I can feel the water, but I never know which way I am heading.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness

Thank heavens for leather boots, mini-skirts and a leather jacket," she exclaimed. "Though I had no inkling I was dressing for a journey such as this. It was pure luck.

The aviation prizes, such as the Orteig Prize, built the aviation industry into what it is today. The competitors for the aviation prizes captured our imagination and instilled a sense of adventure in all of us which allowed aviation to grow as an industry with the support of the public. The X PRIZE, like the Orteig Prize before it, offers the spark needed to inspire the entrepreneurial spirit necessary to build this new industry and make us a true space-faring civilization.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.

There are no wrong roads to anywhere.