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Quotes About Adventure

When I was a little boy, my first memory was a flying dream. In my dream, I flew - and I also fell. I always wondered as I got older if it was some premonition of me falling to my death.
~ Dean Potter
Climbing, as my grandmother said, it's a pretty frivolous thing. She always wondered when I was going to get a real job. But climbing is a real job for me now, and I enjoy it. It's a gift that I'm able to do it, share adventure and motivation with people.
~ Conrad Anker
I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
~ Andrew Motion
I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how.
~ Jimmy Chin
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Celebrate the excitement of trying build something new and wonderful.
~ Abhijit Banerjee
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
~ Neil Armstrong
There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.
~ Nancy Reagan
July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I saw. The country is so grandly wild and desolate that I am charmed by its wonderful dreariness.
~ John James Audubon
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.
~ Emily Carr
Touring is easy. My wife will be with me a lot of the time. We get spoilt rotten, and all I have to do is go on stage in wonderful places and play music.
~ Chris Rea
Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.
~ Bill Bryson
I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.
~ Adrian Smith
If I could be any animal I'd probably be a wandering albatross, the bird with the largest wing span. Being able to cover huge distances of sea every single day would be wonderful!
~ Steve Backshall
You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
~ Alan Alda
You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.
~ Alice Roberts
Metallica is a wonderful key to have on my key ring. I can go anywhere - it's great.
~ James Hetfield
One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.
~ Willem Dafoe
So many people look up to Jennifer Lawrence playing Katniss in 'The Hunger Games.' For them to look up to Rey and what she represents would be fantastic. She's a wonderful character... The reason I love her so much is she does all the fun stuff. She fights, runs and protects herself and has an incredible emotional story.
~ Daisy Ridley
There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful.
~ Iris Apfel
On a bus, your eyes, ears, and pores are open absorbing in the variety, the wonder, and the magic of the city. It's a wonderful way to get to know the city.
~ George Takei
My jet lag is getting a bit ridiculous. But, you know, it's first-world problems. It's a wonderful problem, 'Oh I have to travel around the world; how awful.'
~ Margot Robbie
I loved working with Mickey Rourke. He's a wonderful kind of crazy.
~ Joseph Morgan
All in all, it's been a wonderful, wonderful ride. I don't plan on stopping anytime soon.
~ Teena Marie