Quotes About Adventure

the Old West, mysterious, serious, with great beauty at every vista and terrible things happening whenever any people appeared.)

We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time.

Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!

I didn't want my epitaph to be "She Played It Safe.

It was terrifying, liberating, and risky. But one day I woke up and decided to try it." (On writing her first novel, "Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society")

words from an article I had once written on Tolkien's The Hobbit: "Adventure can be scary and unpredictable, but the more you continue in it, the more you lose that sense of fear and doubt (and the less you care about being late for dinner). You begin to gather up your internal resources with confidence.

I used to travel in tennis shoes I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport....

I just learned the German word fernweh, sort of a cousin to wanderlust; it means "far-sickness, an ache for distance." Penny

I looked at Adrian's eyes, beautiful, mesmerizing. Not human. I didn't feel lonely at all. "You'll take me places?" I asked. His answer was important, even though my decision was already made. "You can't imagine where we'll go." He said, sincerely.

Malcolm chuckled wickedly. "You, my American friend, are like a hidden landmine of sex appeal. I'm going to have to look out for you." "Too late." Owen raised his face to the unfamiliar smells, breezes, sounds of the city, enjoying them even more now that he knew something of it and it had become personal to him. "I've already exploded. You're caught." He tilted his head back and laughed, inviting Malcolm to share the joke, but Malcolm was unusually quiet.....

Where's your goofy little dog?" "You watch Adventure Time?" Finn said, sounding delighted. "That's awesome!

That's the point. Don't you see? From the minute that swimmer found a home, we were going to worry. This ride gets faster and scarier and trickier, and the loops get higher, and there's more of them, and the entire fucking roller coaster is just going to go zooming down the track at Mach fucking twelve, and that's

Twins and a trapeze

the SUV didn't just meet a tree. The subject drove it into a tree, running from a grizzly bear, because the subject was going to take out a half-grown cub with an AK-47 semiauto.

I wanna see it all. I wanna see bears and deer and elk and birds and eagles and hawks and fish. I wanna see a hawk catch a fish while dive-bombing a deer. I wanna feed one of my little sisters to something bigger'n me. It's gonna be like frickin' Christmas, and I want you to be there.

How were we supposed to know we'd meet our one perfect person learning how to pick pockets by the Coliseum?" "I should have spent ten years convincing you," Felix said savagely.

It was a bike. He had to be careful, so careful how he rode it, but it was a bike, and they were going to go zooming downhill and through this world with the neon throbbing on the black of the February night like a hallucinogenic trompe l'oeil.

Ezra crunched boldly, because the only thing worse than a chocolate-covered cricket would be a cricket with all the chocolate sucked off.

Don't think of it so much like running away, Mom. Think of it as escaping.

It was like the time he'd driven a friend's MG in college—doable but not fun.

Yelling, 'Fire in the hole!' and blowing your brains through a straw?

I would follow you to the edge of the galaxy just to watch you make a 720 off the Crab Nebula.