Quotes About Adventure

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Libraries, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic." - The Library at Night

I don't want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.

O brave new world that has such people in it.

Isn't there something in living dangerously?

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

E mai bine, totuÈ™i, s? o iei pe o cale greÈ™it? decât s? te r?t?ceÈ™ti complet.

But I don't want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.

The word 'escape' was suggestive

And, anyhow, hadn't you better wait till you actually see the new world?

One day one would get up at six o'clock and pedal away to Kenilworth, or Stratford-on-Avon—anywhere. And within a radius of twenty miles there were always Norman churches and Tudor mansions to be seen in the course of an afternoon's excursion. Somehow they never did get seen, but all the same it was nice to feel that the bicycle was there, and that one fine morning one really might get up at six.

El viaje transcurrió sin el menor incidente. El Cohete Azul del Pacífico llegó a Nueva Orleáns con dos minutos y medio de anticipación

A 'Wild Goose Chase' is sound, but a bit old–fashioned—pictures of clerical life in the fifties

I'm going to be sent to Iceland.

in the psychological equivalent of Australia.

La oscuridad se hizo más densa a nuestro alrededor y, de pronto, lo árboles se cerraron sobre nosotros y nos vimos sumergidos en la doble noche del bosque.

Com'è l'Africa? - gli chiedevano. - Stanca.

beyond the end of the world

ci sono tre tipi di uomini: quelli che vivono davanti al mare, quelli che si spingono dentro il mare, e quelli che dal mare riescono a tornare vivi. […] vedrai la sorpresa quando scoprirai quali sono i più felici.

Only he who has never been in danger is really saved.

WESSON: Volare giù dalle cascate e non morire... nessuno lo dice, ma qui è il sogno di tutti. SMITH: Ma da quando? WESSON: Da sempre. Noi campiamo delle cascate, ma loro fanno quel che vogliono. L'unico modo sarebbe quello di entrarci dentro e uscirne vivi. E' da sempre che ci aspettiamo che qualcuno lo faccia. SMITH: Sono cinquanta metri che finiscono nell'inferno, Wesson! WESSON: Sì, ma una strada c'è. Me l'ha insegnata mio padre.

Dar se putea si ca toata acea grija de a pune granite si restrictii sa fi ascuns in el o dorinta de a ajunge dincolo de orice regula, chiar si o singura data si cu orice pret – sa ajunga in fond la capatul unui anumit drum.