Quotes About Adventure

Perhaps he had been a little faster. But he had been luckier too. It would not always be that way. Bond knew that there would come a time, a moment in a mission, when his luck would run out. It was a mathematical certainty. No agent had ever survived long in the Double O section and one day someone, somewhere would have the edge and it would be he lying there dead, flat-out in the rain. But not today.

I'd rather kiss the horse....

Each book was a friend.

His uncle, Ian Rider, had taken him on a tour of the Greek islands when he was nine years old and he couldn't help being reminded of it. It was as if nothing had changed. Except, of course, that he was now working for MI6, he was using a false name, his new best friend was a psychotic killer and he had less than a week to stop London from being destroyed.

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

for that Ghast ship

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

I want to do a lot of different characters - definitely not always the same kind of character. I love that life provides so many choices, and I want to be able to experience that.

Connecticut has some of the best parks of any state in the country, and the State Parks system provides numerous opportunities across the state to explore the outdoors.

I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.

I started free-soloing harder and harder routes, kind of proving to myself that I could take control of this, pretty much the biggest fear I had - falling to my death.

I want to do roles that allow me to push my boundaries and provoke us to think differently.

KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures.

'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.

I've been doing expeditions for a living for more than 20 years and know all about what you have to go through psychologically to separate yourself from the modern world.

Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two.

Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.

I learned everything along the way. I only performed five times before I was in the public eye.

I've approached a couple of publishing houses about getting my work in print one day. I'd like to concentrate on sci-fi or action adventure.

The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.