Quotes About Adventure

What is it about being on a boat that makes everyone behave like a film star? --Julia Flyte

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...

You're to come away at once, out of danger. I've got a motor-car and a basket of strawberries and a bottle of Château Peyraguey — which isn't a wine you've ever tasted, so don't pretend. It's heaven with strawberries.

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.

What is adolescence without trash?

How could I have known? There seemed time for everything in those days; the world was open to be explored at leisure.

Next morning at first light to Guy's surprise the troopship at last emerged from the haze of myth and was seen to be solidly at anchor beyond the mouth of the harbor.

Edith and Olive and me have talked it over and we want to go and make aeroplanes.

He was like a friend made on board ship, on the high seas; now we had come to his home port.

Incidents of this kind constantly occurred when Basil was on a racket.

Open country was easily reached in those days.

Trata-se de uma aventura, não de um pacote de férias. E as aventuras não são aventuras se não houver um certo grau de perigo e incerteza.

She did not plan; she merely let herself go, and the overwhelming life in her did the rest.

Why are all the exciting things so uncomfortable

Why are all the exciting things so uncomfortable? Like fighting and exploring and skiing in Canada?

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

I want to do everything in the world with you.

She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

I want excitement; and I don't care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat.