Quotes About Adventure

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

I am sailing in uncharted water and my old life is a distant shore, still visible through the haze of retrospection but receding to a grey line on the horizon.

La vie de l'intelligence constitue un univers lyrique incomparable, un drame complet où ne manquent ni l'aventure, ni les passions, ni la douleur, ni le comique, ni rien d'humain.

Disgusted with being right, with doing what succeeds, with the effectiveness of methods, try something else.

Mon âme pour d'affreux naufrages appareille.

The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

From the top of Mount Everest "Next time I am taking the lift."

Soon you will be going on a new journey and beginning a new life.

Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.

I've never travelled," I told her. "Oh, you absolutely should," she insisted, "if only so that you can come home and really see it for what it is. That's my favourite part.

On December 8, 1921, when the Leopoldina set sail for Europe, we were on board. Our life together had finally begun. We held on to each other and looked out at the sea. It was impossibly large and full of beauty and danger in equal parts-and we wanted it all.

I saw him on the cover of Life magazine and heard about the wars he covered bravely and the other feats - the world-class fishing, the big-game hunting in Africa, the drinking enough to embalm a man twice his size.The myth he was creating out of his own life was big enough to take it for a time - but under this, I knew he was still lonely.

All her stories seemed to involve rowboats and ukuleles, full moons and campfires and grog. I was desperately jealous.

He talks about the gift of being lost in the woods. I've always found that comforting, somehow. That maybe you have to be truly lost before you can find yourself again.