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Quotes About Adventure

One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.
~ Lisi Harrison
Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.
~ Lisi Harrison
Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks
~ Liz Jensen
The worst part was the fear - looking down at the rushing water that seemed miles away. But once you were on that branch, there was no going back.
~ Liz Kessler
By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!
~ Lloyd Alexander
A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.
~ Lloyd Alexander
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
~ Lloyd Alexander
For Wayfarers still journeying, for Wanderers at rest.
~ Lloyd Alexander
And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?' Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheerfully at him. 'I understand you're upset,' she shouted back, 'but that's no cause to be rude.' She galloped on. For a time, Taran could not believe he had really seen her.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Adaon smiled gravely. "Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
~ Lloyd Alexander
I fear I our good dwarf has lost his taste for adventure. I managed to get word to him, thinking he might come along with me for the sport of it. He sent back a message. All it said was 'Humph!
~ Lloyd Alexander
From a swift canter the powerful legs of Melynlas stretched to a gallop. The stallion's muscles heaved beneath him and Taran, sword raised, plunged into the sea of men. His head spun and he gasped as if drowning. He realized he was terrified.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Hwoinch!' said Hen Wen.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures anyone can have.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have
~ Lloyd Alexander
Keep reading It's one of the most adventures that anyone can have
~ Lloyd Alexander
I commend your patience," he said. "The black beast spurs Ellidyr cruelly." "I think he'll feel better once we find the cauldron," Taran said. "There will be glory enough for all to share." Adaon smiled gravely. "Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
~ Lloyd Alexander
My knowledge of parental duties was slight—something to do with graham crackers and proper underclothing. But those duties certainly did not include dashing off to a country of furious Illyrians and, probably, bad drinking water.
~ Lloyd Alexander
When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, of honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.' 'If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are,' Annlaw agreed. 'Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.
~ Lloyd Alexander
He is here now, Taran said quietly. He has long sought you and in ways even he himself did not know. Now that he has found you, can you not find your path back to him?
~ Lloyd Alexander
I have the sword I fashioned,' Taran proudly cried, 'the cloak I wove, and the bowl I shaped. And the friendship of those in the fairest land of Prydain. No man can find greater treasure.
~ Lloyd Alexander