Quotes About Adventure

You must be careful where you step. And you must be ready for what you might find.

There's always someplace to go, even if it's only someplace else.

This," said Angel to Louis, "is the best fucking idea anyone ever had since, like, Columbus bought a boat." The two men, along with Parker, were sitting

On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's resident to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnid revenge.

Cadillac might have been off the beaten track, but a lot of folk preferred the ditch to the highway. It was like Neil Young said: you meet more interesting people there.

He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books. And some of the children understood, and some did not.

Just then a little lady appeared. 'Who are you?' said Dorothy. 'I am the Good Witch of the North,' the little lady replied, 'and if you put on the Wicked Witch's silver shoes . . .' 'I'll look like Lady Gaga.' '. . . you'll have magic powers. Now where would you like to go?' 'Anywhere that Andrew Lloyd Webber is not.

Captain Carpenter rose up in his primePut on his pistols and went riding out.

path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where you've been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant ones; some are not. That's dark and light.

Travel backward to a lost land heard of in childhood; find it to be incomprehensible, rich, strange; then discover it is the place from which you set out.

She began to laugh. You will wander, and live in many houses. "Many houses!

girdled in story, trapped in story, and the only way out was to go through.

The Tale was behind them. And it was to there they journeyed. One step would take them there; they were there already

I've learned...that here you can never go back the way you came. That you never do anywhere. You only and always go on.

The story of the house all lit, the house of four floors, seven chimneys, three hundred and sixty-five stairs, fifty-two doors, traveled far; they were all travelers then. It

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She marched up to it anyway, reaching it with surprising suddenness, the corridor was shorter than it seemed, or seemed longer than it was, whichever; and the door at its end was even smaller than the one she'd come in by. If this keeps up, she thought, I'll be crawling next…. On the door, in fresh white paint in an antique style, the number 001 was painted. Laughing

Maybe every essay automatically is in some way experimental — less an outline traveling toward a foregone conclusion than an unmapped quest that has sprung from the word 'question'.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

stories are everywhere, just waiting to be found...

Im James Bond. Im Jason Bourne. Im Super-freaking-Mario come to life.

tales of Castle Perilous are as endless as the worlds it contains. Only a relative few of them have been set down.… … Which brings

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.