Quotes About Adventure

Big beasties, swordplay, aliens, guns, ghosts, vampires, eldritch things from beyond and slime. A lot of slime.

But you'd best get moving lad. If we lie here too long our nuts will freeze to the ground." "Fine words for a pastor," Jake said. "No man that hath his stones broken shall come nigh to the offerings of the Lord," the pastor said with a straight face. "Now you're just making shit up," Jake replied.

Now let us go, love, down the winding stair, With fingers intertwined...

Let tomorrow cross its own rivers.

Like so many American tales, On the Road is about escape, about lighting out for the perpetually receding territory ahead.

Polar Bear?" "Yeah, Red Fox?" "When the two of us come paddlin' in, you bring on them dancin' girls." The radio crackled. "Hear?" "You bet, Red Fox," Kazaklis replied, fighting hopelessly against his faltering voice. Moreau gazed into the cockpit canopy through the blur of moistened eyes and saw the pilot snap a cocky thumbs-up at them. "Luck!" she and Kazaklis said simultaneously. But before the word was out, the gleaming fighter was gone and the B-52 plowed head-on into the murk of the storm.

This is not a Scooby-Doo episode, Gus said. Granted, our current adventure may lack the mastery and grace of classic stories like 'Hassle in the Castle' or 'Foul Play in Funland', Shawn said. But as I've always said, aim high.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The stories of young men searching for their fathers are the stories of young men who through their adventures father themselves by doing for themselves what they hoped a father would do for them. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation")

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.

Jog on, jog on, the footpath way,And merrily hent the stile-a:A merry heart goes all the day,Your sad tires in a mile-a.

'Tis a naughty night to swim in.

Well then, once in my days I'll be a madcap.

I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die.I think there be six Richmonds in the field.

O brave new world,That has such people in't!

'Tis ever commonThat men are merriest when they are from home.

The day shall not be up so soon as I, To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast;Ready with every nod to tumble downInto the fatal bowels of the deep.

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,I shot his fellow of the selfsame flightThe selfsame way with more advised watch,To find the other forth, and by adventuring both,I oft found both.

I must go seek some dew drops here,And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

Over hill, over dale,Thorough bush, thorough brier,Over park, over pale,Thorough flood, thorough fire.

To seek their fortunes further than at home,Where small experience grows.

Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,To make a hazard of new fortunes here.

Let us make an honorable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.