Quotes About Adventure

I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn't about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

Dad turned to Kurt. "You must be the boy I keep hearing about." "I guess so," Kurt said. "Well, Kurt," Dad said, "just remember that I specialize in tying things to rockets and sending them into space. And sometimes they accidentally blow up." "Dad." "You'll have no reason to kill me, sir." "Kurt. You make sure she doesn't cry, okay?" Dad smiled happily at Kurt and then sagely at me.

Yeah. You going to hunt?" he asked. Jack puffed up a little. "I am. I am going to defy my queen and take a rifle into the woods. But if I hit anything, I'm blaming you.

When you're me, you're a little more afraid of not living than of living too much.

I have no intention of being reckless," she said. "I just don't want to waste away in a lab or library while life goes on around me.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. —Robert Louis Stevenson

We're going to find this girl, we're going to save the day, and then we're going to walk out of this park so we can nail the bastard. Deal? You are a woman after my own heart.

Northwest in

let's go downstairs.

May was like the Friday night of summer: all the good times lying ahead of you, bright and shiny and waiting to be lived.

You haven't lived until you duct-taped a diaper on a dog.

You think you're in Connecticut, but you're in the jungle.

life wouldn't be as much fun if we knew where its treasures were hidden. Sometimes you had to search for them. Sometimes you had to fight for them. And sometimes, they were at your feet. Either way, they were waiting. For you.

To have seen Italy without seeing Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything. —GOETHE, ITALIAN JOURNEY

You can't learn about living unless you live. You can't live unless you take a chance; and your living is limited by the chances you take.

What's your first impression of a new place? Is it the first meal you eat? Your first ice cream cone? The first person you meet? The first night you spend in your new bed in your new home? The first broken promise?

Let them run while they can.

Sometimes the heart tells us to venture where the mind fears to tread.

Lia aimed, shifted and waited, watching one man peek out time and time again. She let her arrow fly anticipating his next peek at us and it pierced his eye. "Okay that's just going to make 'em mad " I said. "Three hundred and ninety-two " she said to Luca tossing her braid over her shoulder and taking aim again. "Saints in heaven " he said to me rolling his eyes "how much deeper in love can I yet fall?

IF YOU REALLY let life take you, if you release control and stop clinging to sameness, you can't imagine the places you'll end up. But most people don't do that. Most people get this death grip on what they know, and the only thing that loosens their grasp is some kind of tragedy.

Story is story, Stella said. It's a portal you walk through into another world. And this world—which usually sucks—just disappears.

It's about the players, their journey, how they begin, how they evolve, and the point at which their stories cease to be told. There is always another monster to be slain, another trial to overcome. There is always another chapter.