Quotes About Adventure

I'm sorry that astronaut will be brought back from her own chosen heaven.

This could be a great time to live in," Kevin said once. "I keep thinking what an experience it would be to stay in it—go West and watch the building of the country, see how much of the Old West mythology is true.

What is it in young boys that makes them want to wander off alone and get killed? They get two chin hairs and they're trying to prove they're men.

I think people who traveled to extrasolar worlds would be on their own—far from politicians and business people, failing economies and tortured ecologies—and far from help. Well out of the shadow of their parent world.

Barbara County. My grandparents' maps helped us explore away from

I mean to learn everything I can while I can,' I said. 'If I find myself outside, maybe what I've learned will help me live long enough to learn more.

discovery rather than invention, exploration rather than creation.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.

ADVENTURES OF ISABEL Isabel

LIFE BEGINS AT THE END OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

Once more I struck out into the ocean of space, heading for another near star. Once more I was disappointed.

Beanie Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.

anywhere. There could be no new world, John

Move. Get going. Blessed is he who leaves.

They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return. And they were relieved when they got back, with a sense of having fulfilled an obligation.

They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return.

The clouds were so low that one could hook onto them and let oneself be carried away to a distant land, to the south, to warmer climes. There one could jump down straight into the olive groves, or at least the vineyards in Moravia, where delicious green wine is made.

In the beginning, long ago, he fled his country, one of those bland, flat communist lands, and as a young immigrant got hired to work on a whaling ship. At that time, he had only a few English words under his belt, intermittent pinpoints between "yes" and "no," just exactly enough to answer the simple grunts the guys on the ship would exchange among themselves.

The flight attendants, beautiful as angels, check to make sure we're fit to travel, and then, with a benevolent motion of the hand, permit us to plunge on into the soft, carpet-lined curves of the tunnel that will lead us aboard our plane and onto a chilly aerial road to new worlds. That smile of theirs hold - or so it strikes us - a kind of promise that perhaps we will be born anew now, this time in the right time and the right place.

Do not leave any unexplained, unnarrated situations, any closed doors; kick them down with a course.

female friends over the age of forty who have left their boring husbands in search of some excitement.

The world is quite a perilous pilgrimage for those who sigh after eternity,

Whenever I set off on any sort of journey I fall off the radar. No one knows where I am.