Quotes About Adventure

I want to move to the new country right now.

I'm the being who isn't planetary; we have traveled beyond our world, to sit in a paper forest lit by jewel-light.

What I love is one foot in front of another. South-south-west and down the contours. I go slipping between Black Ridge and White Horse Hill into a bowl of the moor where echoes can't get out listen a lark spinning around one note splitting and mending it and I find you in the reeds, a trickle coming out of a bark, a foal of a river

three people in raincoats losing their tracks in the snow walking as far as the edge and back again with the trees exhausted tapping at the sky

Bob's Bicycle Helmet Bob's on his bike and I'm on Bob. I'm Bob's helmet. I'm on the job. Bob burns rubber. Bob climbs hills. Bob does wheelies. Bob takes spills. Bob skins his elbow. Bob scrapes his knee. Bob doesn't hurt his head— Bob's got me. And if some day the sky should fall it will not hurt Bob's head at all. Bob's on his bike again. I'm on Bob. I've got him covered. I'm on the job.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

After all, the word "travel" comes from the Latin "trepalium." Which, loosely translated, means "instrument of torture.

I made dangerous choices in those years, thinking myself bold and adventurous. Later I would come to understand that I hadn't been daring at all, just driven by confusion and hormones. The person capable of true daring, I knew now, possessed two admirable qualities: curiosity and courage.

I guess the idea of stepping out from behind the "camouflage of routine," as someone once described it, still intimated me.

As promised, Kyoto Station turned out to be an ordeal. For ninety minutes I searched for a way out of the sixteen-story train station

Always in the Big Woods when you step off alone into a new place, there will be along with...curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown.

there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into." Eight

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

But once you finally take sail in your life, you no longer crave a captain.

Het wordt steeds curieuzer! Nou, mijn lieve Alice, wat fijn dat ik je nu eindelijk eens kan ontmoeten. - Al

So far, so good, thought Maerad, wondering how she was to explain to these people why she had come so far north. Because of a dream, because of a few clues scoured here and there, from a half-mad old Pilanel woman and a wise goatherd in Thorold--what sense could they possibly make of what she told them?

He thought for a while, and then said, "How do you fancy being my mute son, and I a . . . boot maker, maybe, from near Pellinor, seeking help for his son's affliction in Ettinor?" "Why not?" said Maerad, amused. "But do you know anything about boot-making?" "Ar, mistress," said Cadvan, winking in a rascally fashion. "You don't know what I know. My da was a cobbler, and his boots were much prized in Lirigon. And elsewhere, come to that.

If I find any more baby Bards in the wild, I shall give up traveling," he said at last. "I'm not running a School.

I would not like to pass another night in the open, even with Maerad the Unpredictable to protect us; and my head is sore as a bear's.

All young people believed they were immortal, and he had personal experience of the methods they used to cull themselves - base-jumping, sky-diving, hard drugs, alcohol. Over the years he'd come to see solid sense in the ways so-called savage peoples formalised their rituals of manhood; without such regulation, young men seemed compelled to invent their own, even more lethal, rites of passage.

I'll live in another world, then.

We watch a lot of Discovery Channel, shows like 'The Biggest Loser' and even 'Amazing Race.' You learn a lot about the world, it's fun and nobody's interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I'm a huge fan of 'Survivor.'

I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It's important to mix up your routine, not only for your body, but also for your mental state.

The Guns of Navarone