Quotes About Adventure

It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?

One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.

I would love to do things that teach me new skills. Like, I don't know how to ride a horse. And not that I need a film or television project to teach me that, but it's one of the perks of being an actor, inhabiting a character who has experiences and a knowledge that I don't.

But for me, personally, that's one of the biggest perks of the job that I get to do these kinds of crazy things but in a safely created environment.

It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home.

I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.

I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender roles in genre.

A lunatic lifestyle on the road doesn't permit you to get too hip to stuff as you should.

You never know what you're getting into like some of the best experiences I've ever had have been movies that literally had a million dollar budget and everybody's eating Cheetos all day and running around without permits and trying not to get caught.

Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move.

I flew helicopters, and I loved flying helicopters on the East Coast when I did a couple of deployments out to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.

Some time, when man shall have made all things alike, the earth will be a dull, tedious dwelling-place, and we shall have even to give up travelling and seeking for a change which can no longer be found.

edmond about'un roman? the king of the mountains (1857) için gustave dore'nin yapt??? gravürler, gecenin dü?lerini hat?rlarken al?nan zevkin güzel bir örne?idir. bir ingiliz han?m ve güzel k?z?yla birlikte yunanl? e?k?yalar taraf?ndan kaç?r?lan ba? kahraman, genç k?zla birlikte -fakat yan?nda annesi olmaks?z?n!- kaç?p kurtulma hayallerini anlatarak vakit geçirir.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

What kind of fool had he been, to throw away romance untried?

My soul, do not seek eternal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible.

Life must be lived as play.

There is always something new out of Africa.

Out of Africa, there is always something new.

Ex Africa semper aliquid novi.

Another way to characterize it is that our chances of finding a habitable planet are roughly equal to the chances that Christopher Columbus, sailing east, would accidentally discover the Americas. It's not a question of if. It's only a question of when.

Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I'm not marrying at all.