Quotes About Adventure

You're not what I expected in a pirate."He laughed, curtly. "You're not what I expected in a princess.

Lucy woke with the munchies the night the kidnappers came for her.

This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!

If speed one day kills me, don't be sad because I was smiling

Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.

Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will come after you.

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.

Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.

They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.

Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.

Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the disheveled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

My Lord Bag of Rice.

One old courtier, Jofuku by name, said that far away across the seas there was a country called Horaizan,

Sizler, tan?mad???m okurlar?m, sizler bize oranla muhtemelen çocuksunuz (sonuçta bizim arkam?zda TekDevlet var ve haliyle insan için en mümkün en yüksek doruklara erdik). Ve t?pk? çocuklar gibi, ac? ÅŸeyleri ancak tatl? ve kal?n bir macerayla kaplay?p verirsem yutacaks?n?z.

A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no point in reading.

A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth reading to the very end.

And, like children, you will swallow without protest everything bitter I shall give you only when it is carefully coated with the thick syrup of adventure.

Kdoví… ÄŒlovÄ›k je jako román: do poslední stránky nevíÅ¡, jak skon?í. Jinak by ho ani nestálo za to ?íst…

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.

A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.

Two people who are constantly seeking experience rarely settle for each other. Two people enduring experience rarely meet in life. That's why Fabienne and I were meant for each other. We were the perfect pair, one seeking all that the other could experience.

This is what I know: if we stopped writing now, we would never make it to Paris," Fabienne said. "You see, it's like a game. We don't know when the game is going to be over, but since we've already begun, and since we don't have another game to play just now, we may as well stick with this one.

when you summon the courage to do what others won't, you will have in life what others don't.