Quotes About Adventure

I want to do things that scare me, and also have a good time.

I dare somebody to go to Atlanta and not have a good time.

Maybe high school would have been a good time to have a little Dylan McKay in my life.

I fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.'

I definitely am open to South Indian films. There is a lot of good work coming from these states and I would like to be a part in some of them.

And now you intend to stay here with us in Riva?' asked the burgomaster. 'I do not,' said the hunter with a smile, and to excuse the jest he laid his hand on the burgomaster's knee. 'I am here, more than that I do not know. My boat has no rudder, it is driven by the wind that blows in the nethermost regions of death.

Which road, which road did you take That brought you here at last? No road, no road did I take. I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.

How long's your vacation? A year. Maybe longer. A year? What did you do? Win the lottery? Most americans we met on the road, or at least the ones without nose rings, had a hard time fathoming the idea of a year's travel. Australians and Germans would nod in of course approval. Our country men would fixate on language barriers or some hideous tropical disease. They'd talk about the nightmare scenario - a Third World appendectomy and not being able to tell the doctor to use clean needles.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Old Yeller.

I don't think you lose anything by hallucinating. It's cheaper than airfare, the destinations more interesting, and I'd rather have a mutant squid on my window than the State Department trying to do foreign affairs.

We weren't born yesterday. We are from [New York]. But we are also from somewhere else. We are from Oz, from the Looking-Glass Land, from Narnia, and from Middle Earth. If with part of ourselves we are men and women of the world and share the sad unbeliefs of the world, with a deeper part still, the part where our best dreams come from, it is as if we were indeed born yesterday, or almost yesterday, because we are also all of us children still.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen, so wie in die Tiefe. (One can as well fall into height as into depth)

The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

We have forsaken the land and gone to sea! We have destroyed the bridge behind us – more so, we have demolished the land behind us! Now, little ship, look out! Beside you is the ocean; it is true, it does not always roar, and at times it lies there like silk and gold and dreams of goodness. But there will be hours when you realize that it is infinite and that there is nothing more awesome than infinity.

Here is the great city: here have you nothing to seek and everything to lose.

I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I cannot long sit still. And whatever may still overtake me as fate and experience—a wandering will be therein, and a mountain-climbing: in the end one experienceth only oneself.