Quotes About Adventure

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport.

We had taken up aeronautics merely as a sport. We reluctantly entered upon the scientific side of it.

What do you think the path of your predecessors was, but the path of adventure?

I'm never satisfied. I need stronger and stronger stimulation. But I'm a coward and a lazybones, so for the most part nothing happens beyond my imagining some excitement. I'm a speculator of the metaphysical. An adventurer only in my mind. A navigator within the reading room. In other words, I'm an insignificant dream-weaver.

Life is given to live, not survive.

Starting a business is one of the most exhilarating, and frightening, things you can do in a lifetime.

The risks are important to keep in mind, but they shouldn't necessarily stop you from pushing ahead with your idea.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.

Huge waves that would frighten an ordinary swimmer produce a tremendous thrill for the surfer who has ridden them.

If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the calm waters just inside the harbor, full of joy, but always tied to the dock. You have to get out past the harbor into the great depths of God, and begin to know things for yourself—begin to have spiritual discernment.

Get into the habit of saying. "Speak, Lord," and life will become a romance.

Partíamos em direção da vida - estrada onde havíamos de encontrar muitas vezes abismos recobertos de flores.

One day I got out "on the loose," as your slang phrases it; a reprehensible practice, no doubt, but one dear to dogs as to men, for better is a bare bone in the gutter, with the sweetness of free-will, than are fatted meats eaten within the curb and the gall of a chain.

Fortune and love favour the brave.