Quotes About Adventure

All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains.

I never really did a western western.

The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.

I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.

I've always loved a good Western.

I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

I know I am always pumped, as an audience member, to go and see a Western.

I grew up kind of in the country, in western Georgia. And then I moved a lot closer to Atlanta, and I started doing plays, and when I started doing film, I think I really started to love it.

I want to do a Western so bad because I want to ride horses and act. Those are two of my favorite things in the world to do. I want to do that.

I always wanted to do a Western.

I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

I'd love to do a Western.

Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

I think America is a new country. It is a young culture. The spirit of the opening of the West is still with the Americans. It's a very practical and individual-based kind of philosophy that had worked in America for a long time, had been very successful. And the spirit is very much there.

The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation - indeed, as a scientist or practical man, I see little purpose in sending people into space at all. But as a human being, I'm an enthusiast for manned missions.

The answer is that I do want to climb Everest, but I don't want to go to Everest. I don't want to be cold. I can't take the time. It's just not practical.

I remember I went to Pune and bought an old bike and modified it. After that I started learning to ride from a friend, practicing in my backyard.

I've never been to Prague, and I've never been to Russia.

I personally think Prague is more romantic than Paris. If you have a girlfriend, take her there.

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.