Quotes About Adventure

On every side of us are men who hunt perpetually for their personal northwest passage, too often sacrificing health, strength, and life itself to the search; and who shall say they are not happier in their vain but hopeful quest than wiser, duller folks who sit at home, venturing nothing and, with sour laughs, deriding the seekers for that fabled thoroughfare?

They walked to the highway and turned past Shattuck's Café

Somebody who would go to Italy with you and get up on a Saturday morning and take you up in the mountains and get snowed on and come home and be filled up with it all.

Front Range

I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my star further.

Wasn't it wonderful of Angus and Emma to spring for first class tickets?" "Yes." "It's an incredibly long flight, you know." "Yes." "They'll show us a movie or two." "Yes." She leaned close to him, smiling. "I love traveling with you. You're so agreeable." He gave her an annoyed look. "Are you going to talk the whole time?" She smiled sweetly. "Yes.

How could everything go so wrong so fast? For goodness' sake, she was only looking for a few plants. But instead, she'd found a whole village of mind-controlled slaves and a whole army of acrobatic kung fu vampires.

Silly human is trying to get himself killed. Zoltan turned toward the voice but saw only a dog resting on a porch a few houses down the road.

The world was her oyster, except she didn't care for oysters. Better yet, the world was her raspberry. She liked raspberries.

So, I've decided to take him down to the tavern where he can meet real people and hear real adventures. That'll cure him of that fairy-tale nonsense before it sets in too deeply. (I'm no stranger to nonsense, having done plenty of it over the course of my own life, but at least I know the difference.)

But he had been invited to a game. An adventure. Adventures were often uncomfortable, but never boring. He composed an email to Kelly whose email was—Asil sighed—[email protected] and arranged to meet her at his favorite Thai restaurant

Leia Organa married Han Solo; and together they had three children.

For a man burning to venture into the unknown, this spell of enforced idleness was torment.

They fell into two groups: the Saints (or in the spelling of their day, 'Saincts'), ideological, theological migrants, and the Strangers, who had compelling reasons of their own for risking their lives at sea. Few if any of the Strangers were driven by a calling to spread the Gospel; for the most part they simply hoped that they would fare better in the new world.

have been sailing with almost bare poles

Raistlin, watching, said breathily, "Remember, Caramon, shaken, not stirred.

Kevin Wignall

What do you think I'm going to do? she asked him. Whatever it is, he answered, I think you'll be terrified when it happens. Don't let that stop you.

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

Life is a train, get on board.

I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lip. I ran

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. But just the one. Don't either of you ask me for more. It's late, and we have a long day of travel ahead of us, Pari, you and I. You will need your sleep tonight. And you too, Abdullah. I am counting on you, boy, while your sister and I are away. So is your mother. Now. One story, then. Listen, both of you, listen well. And don't interrupt.

America was different. America was a river, roaring along, unmindful of the past. I could wade