Quotes About Adventure

They made their unsteady way up onto damp, firm sand, through the cool wet.

The road will make me better. The road always does.

He took off," Bilbo said. "Like you said he would. Caught a cab outside the lobby." "You get the cab number?" "And the license," Bilbo said, and told him both.

The aspiring novelist in me wants a secret tunnel hidden behind a false wall, or a poster of a famous movie star, or

The coat adds +5 to all armor rolls

There was a great pirate ship that swung back and forth like a pendulum, sailing high out over the sides of the pier and the ocean beyond, while shrill screams carried into the night. I thought of that ride as the SS Fuck No.

You don't want to start A Game of Thrones when you might catch fire all of a sudden.

Nah. Hero, for sure. Think about it. In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.

You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about. That's just the deal.   I

Science Fiction stories are the dazzling flares we launch into the darkness, to catch a glimpse of the country before us and show us our way.

her boyfriend when he tells her they are gypsies, two moths drunk on light, darting from the flower of one red sunset to the next; but several times she's dozed off in the passenger seat and awakened from traitorous dreams of her old bedroom, soft pillows.

When you had a set of wheels that could take you anywhere, you didn't walk away from it.

Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

A reading life... is an adventure without maps where you meet unexpected soulmates along the way.

Now, in the living of my life, I've killed deadly men and dangerous animals and made love to four Chinese women, all of them on the same night and in the same wagon bed, and one of them with a wooden leg, which made things a mite difficult from time to time.

I didn't suspect the day Grandfather came out and got me and my sister, Lula, and hauled us off toward the ferry that I'd soon end up with worse things happening than had already come upon us or that I'd take up with a gun-shooting dwarf, the son of a slave, and a big angry hog, let alone find true love and kill someone, but that's exactly how it was.

like a pack of wild Indians.

They don't understand that we've changed our mentality and making a six-figure income no longer drives how we live our lives. Happy, healthy, together and with the world as our backyard, that's how we want to live.

Every so often, the universe must just get bored and decide to really cut loose.

Wait a second," Han said. "What are those things?" She shook her head. "Life-forms." "Thanks, Doc," he said.

There's no guardrail.

I'm just saying—" He pointed the way that Han appeared to be favoring. "—this doesn't feel right." "Yeah, well, we're on a Star Destroyer, being chased by the living dead. None of this feels right.

You should consider traveling, spending some time seeing the world. It's best when you're young.