Quotes About Adventure

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.

Gyermekként úgy élünk, szinte az eget súroljuk, de most miféle virradat ez.

Pilgrims were people in scientific exile.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

What you ask is madness. But I adore a mad escapade

You can't test courage cautiously.

Come," [Jesus] said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. MATTHEW 14:29

1. Little Train Station 2. The Adventures of Rainy 3. The Boy Who Went About Doing Good 4.Rosa and the Golden Jar 5.Alina and the Dancing Fairy 6.The Three Sisters 7.Soso 8.The Friendly Crocodile 9.The Princess Who Could Not Sleep

Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes. In my opinion, camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized, urbanized existence. Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it.

To adventure into the figurative meanings of his words was where the inherent danger resided.

Oh, Tongue, give sound to joy and sing Of hope and promise on dragonwing

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

accepting lifts is cheating and I cycled on.

Cloud and Wallfish, Wallfish and Cloud.

I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was...young.