Quotes About Adventure

I wanted to make sure that 'Up' wasn't a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It's a movie about an old man who sails his house to South America that also happens to be in 3D. So the first thing is always the story.

When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, 'How can I return alive?' All the preparation and training was based on this question. But the more I prepared, I knew the chance of survival was very slim. Nobody in the world had done this before, so I told myself that I must face death. Otherwise, I am not eligible.

The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing.

'Seconds' is very much about reaching out for the next thing after you've figured out the first thing.

The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.

The first thing I thought when I finished Ernest Cline's 'Ready Player One' was, 'My God, it's the grown-up's 'Harry Potter.'' Now this is from a mega 'HP' fan, so I mean business, here.

When we were first writing 'Stranger Things,' the first thing we wrote was that Dungeons & Dragons scene. And we wrote it in about two minutes. It just poured out of us because it was so close to us.

The hardest climb for me was Kangchenjunga, at 28,169 feet the world's third-highest mountain. The first thing that made this summit difficult was the speed that I climbed and summited two 8,000-er's, back-to-back.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

There's intense personal gratification in finding a mountain and becoming inspired by the aesthetics of an unclimbed line on that mountain, especially if that line has been tried by a lot of people who couldn't do it, and you get to set yourself up against the history of it.

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

Why climb? That's a question that baffles me. It perplexes me. I really asked that a lot on Everest. I can't justify it. I can't say it's for a good cause. All I can say is look at the history of exploration: it's full of vainglorious pursuits.

I've always been interested in exploration and the history of exploring the world, but it seems like we've found everything now.

It's really impressive what those like Messner and Walter Bonatti have done - they are a big part of the history of alpinism.

We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

The most important lesson is to never get comfortable; always come up with new ideas; learn something new; try something new.

I always believe that the most important part of a journey is the journey itself.

I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.

The one thing I haven't done that would be so cool would be, like, an action movie. Like a real action, Jason Bourne movie or something.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.

That's the only thing I'm jealous about 'Game of Thrones': they get to go to Spain all the time.

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!