Quotes About Adventure

Pluto is the new Mars.

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with low-lifes. They were the sort who'd pick your pocket and then say 'Here you are lad, here's tuppence, get yourself some chips'. I was a good rugby player, a good runner, so I fitted in at Cambridge quite easily.

I moved to Madrid with 200 bucks in my pocket to see what was going to happen. Of course, I didn't know that 200 euros was nothing, because in Cuba, 200 was a lot, and the money I had been saving from my movies.

I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

The Britons bankrupted me. I came to their country with £10 in my pocket and they gave me £1 back. But in between I had one hell of a ride.

Acting is the only profession in the world where you can travel and see various places without having to spend money from your own pocket.

Finn is just a stormtrooper, and stormtroopers are no longer clones, so they are bred from birth to fight. He's not too sure about it, so he escapes and meets Rey and Poe and BB8, and their stories kind of mesh together, and they go on a major adventure.

If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.

Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

I love 'Pointless', part of the genius of the show is that it's always a different story.

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed plan.

There's certainly never a dull moment in the Stewart clan.

I'm open to anything interesting as long as it doesn't clash with my schedule as a mom and wife.

I tried a bunch of things, like Jiu Jitsu boxing classes. I don't know why, but I did.

After the Dirk Pitt books became best-sellers, I could afford to buy the more exotic examples of classic autos.

I was raised on the classics - Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and others.

Being outside on your own in all weathers is exciting; it clears you out.

I love Cleveland; I'll always want to fight there. But there's a lot going on in New York. I'd like to go somewhere I'm not known as well.

When I'm 70 or 80, I'm still going to be doing good climbs. It's going to be fun to the bitter end.

It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.

It's like a living process. You start out, and you see the Eiger north face, and you think, 'That's impossible.' Then you start to dream. Then you climb the Eiger north face. Then maybe you go to the Himalaya.

My first climb was on lead; there were pitons, no bolts.

I don't really think about why I climb, I just simply love it.