Quotes About Adventure

I loved these turtles that were somehow mutants and teenagers, and they were ninjas. How cool is that?

We left our homes and moved to Nashville as teenagers, and suddenly, we were on our own. We knew all we wanted to do in the world was write and sing... and the only way that would happen would be to jump, but you still get scared or sure you've done a dumb thing.

I started climbing in my late teens, but I wasn't passionate about it back then. My first experience was being dragged up peaks by my parents; freezing cold with nothing to see.

Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.

I backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in '84.

I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.

'Maze Runner' is about a group of teens that live inside this giant maze. And outside the maze are these creatures that come out at night. The centerpiece of the maze where we stay is called the Glades, and we call ourselves the Gladers.

It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens.

I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio; raised primarily in Phoenix, Arizona; and, after running away from home in my teens to play music and bouncing around a bit, settled in Oxford, Mississippi, which I consider more my home than anywhere else in the world.

The idea you start from is 'What's cool to a kid in their early teens?' So we had the guitar in 'Devil May Cry 3.' Guitars are cool to kids that age, and motorcycles are, too.

A crocodile just swung around and hit me with its teeth. It took a big chunk off my leg.

There must be something about me and teeth when I'm filming abroad, I don't have a lot of luck.

Speed Racer is good to cut your teeth on, but if anyone has not seen Akira, go get it.

If you are going to do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can really sink your teeth in and that's going to be different and interesting for this next period of time.

I'm always reading. I've loved reading since I was young, and I've always loved sinking my teeth into a different world, especially one that you begin to create in your head.

If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'

I started at 'The Daily Telegraph' as a daily news reporter. I moved then to 'The Guardian,' and then I moved to New York as the correspondent for 'The Guardian,' moved to 'The Times of London.' And really, it was the best job you could imagine. You could cover any story you wanted in America.

I can't imagine anywhere I'd rather be than outside the space shuttle in my space suit next to the Hubble Space Telescope.

In the course of writing 'First Light,' I climbed all over and through the Hale Telescope, where I found rooms, stairways, tunnels, and abandoned machines leaking oil. My notebooks show tooth-marks where I gripped them with my teeth while climbing around inside the telescope, and the notebooks are stained with Flying Horse telescope oil.

As a child, I have always wanted to have my fingers in many pies, and working on television was always on my checklist.

Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers.

We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world.

If I tell you there's cheese on the moon, bring the crackers.