Quotes About Adventure

We want a little risk in our lives because it keeps things interesting. It wakes us up, it gives us a sense that we're alive and breathing and doing Something! Throwing yourself into it begins with being grateful that you even have something to throw yourself into.

All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life's next adventure.

Of course I'm going to jump into the abyss. That's what I do—throw myself into the unknown.

How easy it is to upend your life. To restless, heedless me it was nothing.

For me, this wasn't a big leap—our fleeing known New York for the uncertainty of life in Europe was within the continuum of leaps I had been making my entire life.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running." —Jimi Hendrix Soundtrack:

was the intimation that fresh pastures beckoned. Jansch's Jack Orion

Until the end of their lives, these men and women would tell stories about the summer they followed Lyndon Johnson and his Flying Windmill around Texas; as Oliver Knight of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram would write about one trip, "That mad dash from Navasota to Conroe in which I dodged stumps at 70 MPH just to keep up with that contraption will ever be green in my memory.") At the landing site, there would be the brief respite

I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.

the greatest danger to man in space was man himself.

There is no safety this side of the grave.

A man can face known danger. But the unknown frightens him. We

That boy skates close to the edge, he always has. He's utterly fearless and that's how he's made his reputation. But the rabbit is never more than two jumps ahead of the coyote . . 

Spaceships are for acrobats who are also mathematicians.

Robert A. Heinlein

We always trotted everywhere at Camp Arthur Currie. I never did find out who Currie was, but he must have been a trackman.

Robert A. Heinlein

She might get high enough to crash—no higher.

Bir kaplan?n s?rt?nda yolculuk etmenin en önemli kural?, kulaklar?n? asla b?rakmamakt?r.

Robert A. Heinlein

Terra had climbed well beyond that which its

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.