Quotes About Adventure

And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies Is a wee one's trundle-bed; So shut your eyes while Mother sings Of wonderful sights that be, And you shall see the beautiful things As you rock on the misty sea.

Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes, and Nod is a little head, And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies is a wee one's trundle-bed. So shut your eyes while Mother sings of wonderful sights that be, And you shall see the beautiful things as you rock in the misty sea, Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three: Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.

But for now I prefer to think that I will go somewhere that is not so overimagined.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

To escape from the little island of the living.

There are so many doors to walk through in life, you can't be afraid of all of them, even if you know one of them might be your last.

killer were right behind us. Now we were outside,

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.

Richard Hawley's 'Tonight The Streets Are Ours'. He dusted and polished to The KLF; hoovered to Robyn and Bat For Lashes.

In the daytime, when the sun is young, My heart aches for thee. I take a flute and blow it. I go out wandering. Taking a long sword, I go away into the night; I go away under the dark sky. I fear nothing...

I'm about to jump off the cliff of anxiety mountain.

I'm not a spy. I'm not a cop. All I know is from watching movies and I'm pretty sure if my life depends on doing parkour across rooftops,

There is nothing warmer to a man's heart than the woman he loves telling him she's ready to sneak behind enemy lines and rescue him.

the only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. arthur c. clark

What I mean is that if I'm making up something in my head using places and situations I already know, then it goes smoothly.

My curiosity was more powerful than my fear.

Want to give up saving the world and come play with me?" There is something utterly fearless about her that I admire. While I've been fretting about how to put my skills to better use for humanity and almost dying or getting imprisoned in the process, here's a free spirit who's decided to let the world figure its own shit out while she has a blast making a fortune's worth of fuck-you money.

Why did the reindeer fly over the mountain? Answer: Because he couldn't fly under it.

Books and movies are portals through which we escape from sour reality. They enable us to change our names, our history, our faces and our tomorrows, at least for a few hours. Most people don't realize they are traveling on magic carpets.

I never saved anything for the swim back.

This is a time to try men of force and vision and not to be exclusively confined to those who are judged safe by conventional standards.

Napoleon taught ordinary people that they could make history, and convinced his followers they were taking part in an adventure, a pageant, an experiment, an epic whose splendour would draw the attention of posterity for centuries to come.

Mages, unsurprisingly, loved researching new and exciting ways to explode things just as much as anyone else. I