Quotes About Adventure

Is this okay?" I asked the crew. They smiled. "You be you, Jessica," If I was me being me, I would have said no to going camping. But I guess they had enough footage of us sitting on the couch, so a-camping we will go.

Berlin ist natürlich großartig. Man denkt, man sitzt im Kino. Aber ich weiß nicht recht, ob ich immer hier leben möchte. In Neustadt haben wir den Obermarkt und den Niedermarkt und den Bahnhofsplatz. Und die Spielplätze am Fluß und im Amselpark. Das ist alles. Trotzdem, Professor, ich glaube, mir genügt's. Immer solcher Fastnachtsrummel, immer hunderttausend Straßen und Plätze? Da würde ich mich dauernd verlaufen.

I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

Niemand kennt mich hier, dachte sie. Und niemand weiß, dass ich hier bin! Sie empfand diese Anonymität wie ein sonderbares, stürmisches Glück, das Glück, einem Glück entkommenzu sein, auf kurze Zeit oder für immer.

the counter of "The Bar" was the Captain's bridge of the Ship of Life, and we were set once more for the open sea.

And so everything is new and brave, red poppies and good food, cigarettes and summer breeze.

Man lives, you're right! Whoever seeks further is already lost.

Safe in his cage,' she repeated. 'Who wants to be safe in a cage?

Fear lent me wings. - Godfrey

It amused him that women as a class were so wonderfully vulnerable, as if they believed that the codes of conduct that applied in their safe little hometowns, like Alva, Clinton, and Percy, might actually still apply once they had left behind their dusty, kerosene-scented parlors and set out on their own.

through the hull—the rush of water past a prow, the thrum of propellers.

At present, he said, I am responsible for conveying my associates to a place called Chicago. I understand it is somewhere in the hinterland.

My travels took me as far north as Thorsminde, Denmark (in February no less); as far south as Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia; as far west as the Hoover Library at Stanford University; and to various points east, including the always amazing Library of Congress and the U.S. National Archives, and equally enticing archives in London, Liverpool, and Cambridge.

Cherbourg was leaving Liverpool, the ship

He joined the crew of the Lake Champlain, a small steam-powered cargo ship owned by the Beaver Line of Canada but subsequently acquired by the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was its second officer in May 1901, when it became the first merchant vessel to be equipped with wireless.

There is nothing like the diversion of travel for one who is mentally fagged.

the station.

Speed Bonnie Boat.

Three hours into the voyage Kendall saw two of his passengers lingering by a lifeboat. He knew them to be the Robinsons, father and son, returning to America.

look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion—that you were aboard a ship being propelled far into the bluest reaches of the ocean.

Churchill himself found it all thrilling. "After all," he told an interviewer with the Chicago Daily News later that week, "what more glorious thing can a spirited young man experience than meeting an opponent at four hundred miles an hour, with twelve or fifteen hundred horse power in his hands and unlimited offensive power? It is the most splendid form of hunting conceivable.

It was a perfect storm, and Spade was the perfect pirate.

Bet you've never had a bear down your pants before. Though I'm kind of a bear in bed. (Rick from Back to Basics)

You hear a lot about people who are afraid to die. Well, they're nothing compared to the ones who are afraid to live—people who go through life just making motions—and conventional motions at that.