Quotes About Adventure

Do not take roads traveled by the public.

partir du jour où il s'est rendu à

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

The shortest distance between two points is not a very interesting journey.

I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff?

It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.

Uncertainty is the very essence of romance.

Oh, Lucia the captain said softly, you are so little and so lovely. how I would have liked to have taken you to Norway and shown you the fiords in the midnight sun, and to China- what you've missed, Lucia, by being born too late to travel the Seven Seas with me! And what I've missed, too.

We are always afraid of the unknown.

I loved the world of imagination.

Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.

When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World I've been on TV and had three TV series.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

Getting invisible is fun, but it could be dangerous.

All new beginnings require that you unlock a new door.

I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.

Listen. Allow me to be your god. Let me take you on a journey beyond imagining. Let me tell you a story.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where the honey-sipping hummingbird rocks himself on the end of the thinnest branch, I will flower out as a champa.

Their real freedom is not within the boundaries of security, but in the highroad of adventures, full of the risk of new experiences

At the very name of another country, my heart would go out to it, and at the sight of a foreigner in the streets, I would fall to weaving a network of dreams,—the mountains, the glens, and the forests of his distant home, with his cottage in its setting, and the free and independent life of far-away wilds.

Perhaps the scenes of travel conjure themselves up before me and pass and repass in my imagination all the more vividly, because I lead such a vegetable existence that a call to travel would fall upon me like a thunder-bolt.