Quotes About Adventure

This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

His optimistic dream of the great American adventure was what made his writing alive, his belief in the essential joyousness of following his own emotions and being excited by the promise of life.

and I shambled after as usual as I've been doing all my life after people that interest me, because the only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yearn or say a commonplace thing ... but burn, burn, burn like Roman candles across the night.

And miles to go before I sleep . . .

She didn't sound scared. Excited, if anything. The invulnerability of the young.

As the rest of them aged and raged against the good night to come, he faced it with equanimity, even with amusement. Death, he said, was the last big adventure.

Ashworth drove carefully up the track and through the ford towards the forest.

Sitting on the back of my motorbike going from west to east through Mongolia was one of the most inspiring and awesome experiences I've ever had. There was so little influence of the western world.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

When I was 12, I decided I was only going to watch Westerns for a few months.

I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.

I love westerns. It's guys being guys. There's no room for frilly stuff.

I love Westerns. They're a unique creation of American mythology.

I knew that I was going to do Westerns. I like 'em.

Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.

I love Westerns!

I grew up watching Westerns.

'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.