Quotes About Adventure

The men could pick up girls along that road if they promised to take them where they wanted to go, buxom, young, homely, grinning girls with missing teeth whom they could drive off the road and lie down in the wild grass with, and Yossarian did whenever he could, which was not nearly as often as Hungry Joe, who could get a jeep but couldn't drive, begged him to try.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

Arise, my love, and come away," and enjoy the good and glorious things of life.

Your subconscious speaks to you in intuitions, impulses, hunches, intimations, urges, and ideas, and it is always telling you to rise, transcend, grow, advance, adventure, and move forward to greater heights.

Men and women find all sorts of ways to be together, all sorts of ways. Yours was high and dangerous. Most of us stay on the lower paths.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

the gusto of a broncobuster breaking in the wildest filly in the corral before heading on into the sunset. (In truth, we are in a hillside suite at the Chateau Marmont. But considering Yuri's attitude toward women, the cowboyspeak sums things up quite nicely.)

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

Shiny, let's be bad guys!

Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say. I do. But I like to hear you say it. Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.

Time for some thrillin' heroics.

I am a leaf on the wind - watch how I soar

Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me.

Be brave. Live.

So, no more running. I aim to misbehave.

Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west.

I thought my dance alone through worlds of odd and eccentric planets that no one else knew would sustain me.

Eventually, we all make it home, and we each make an individual path by any means.

What a wild dilemma, how to make it to the stars on a highway slick with fear

Be daring, take on anything. Don't labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

if you blunder by accident into a secret it's like you've pushed open a door where you thought was just a wall. You can look through, if you're brave or reckless enough you can even step inside-taking a chance what you'll learn is worth what it costs.

is joy in life, a terrible joy. There is joy for the taking if you are not afraid.

I think we are all cats with nine lives, or even more. We must rejoice in our elusive catness.

Beyond Boothbay, beyond the fifth of July...?