Quotes About Adventure

Comyn thought it was funny. It was very funny, indeed, that men making the second Big Jump in history, that men going faster and farther than any men but five had ever gone before, separated only by metal walls from the awfulness of infinity, should sit and play games with little plastic cards and pretend they were not where they were.

I feel like a child. But I learn a little something every day. It's like a whole new way of living. It's a willingness to give up control. To make a commitment and have faith it'll work out.

back to the lodge. "He's a bruising rider—we wouldn't

As someone called Anonymous once said, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain." MARK TWAIN

Do you usually go hiking? This weekend, take a tennis lesson. Do you bowl? Leave that to your buddies this time. Why? Because it will give you conversational fodder for the rest of your life.

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According to the laws of chance, if you look around enough, you are bound to find something interesting.

Jesus called his disciples to "follow me," but he didn't tell them where they were going.

Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, and there you long to return.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

For once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. For there you have been, and there you will always long to return

Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others.

In pale blue fog, a far, white sailboat Through mist and sea, sails all alone What lures him to distant countries? What drives him out, so far from home? The waves are mad, the wind is whistling Mast, creaking, moans without cease Alas, not happiness it's seeking And not from happiness it flees Beneath, the azure current flows Above, the golden sunlight streaks But restlessly, it prays for storms As if in storms it may find peace

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

Scully was doing the driving, which she preferred. Mulder knew only two speeds: fast and faster.

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul

There is a place, like no place on earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say, to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am.

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!