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Quotes About Adventure

She had never been a gloomy person. There had been some good times aboard Ringmaster, but little out-and-out fun.
~ John Varley
Admit it, Rocky. You're a tourist at heart.
~ John Varley
I thought a while ago, here we are in this incredible place. We know there are a dozen intelligent races in here. What do we do? Sit around and fish? Well, not me. I feel like nosing around. It's what they were paying us for, and it's what I like. Maybe I want some adventure.
~ John Varley
The thirst to do something outrageous and heroic had never left her.
~ John Varley
How heavy is that day in the mountains when you built a campfire and saw a shooting star? What is the mass of yesterday? How fast is love?
~ John Varley
Cirocco liked space, reading, and sex, not necessarily in that order. She had never been able to satisfactorily combine all three, but two was not bad.
~ John Varley
A toast! To the road! May it lead to adventure and carry us safely back home.
~ John Varley
Bill's tongue had started at Cirocco's toes and was now exploring her left ear. She liked that. It had been a memorable journey.
~ John Varley
One curious thing about Apollo 11: while it was happening, no one knew for sure exactly where Eagle had actually landed!
~ John W Young
Speak your mind, but ride a very fast horse!!
~ John Wain
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne
Take 'er easy there, pilgrim
~ John Wayne
Think Ya Can Make It Pilgrim?
~ John Wayne
Think you can make it, pilgrim?
~ John Wayne
Well Good Luck Pilgrim
~ John Wayne
Fear is just one of the many words I don't know the meaning of.
~ John Wayne
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne
COWBOYS, just like the word says.
~ John Wayne
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
~ John Wheeler
Supongo que hago esto porque no importa si lo hago o no. Y puede ser divertido pasear por el mundo una vez más antes de regresar a los claustros y a la lenta extinción que nos aguarda a todos».
~ John Williams
You are the dreamer, the madman in a madder world, our own midwestern Don Quixote without his Sancho, gamboling under the blue sky.
~ John Williams
The True, the Good, the Beautiful. "[...] They're just around the corner, in the next corridor; they're in the next book, the one you haven't read, or in the next stack, the one you haven't got to. But you'll get to it someday. And when you do--when you do--
~ John Williams
The True, the Good, the Beautiful. They're just around the corner, in the next corridor; they're in the next book, the one you haven't read, or in the next stack, the one you haven't got to. But you'll get to it someday. And when you do--when you do--
~ John Williams
It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or being born. I preferred the notion of finding out first how it would be, and then doing what one could about the parts of it one disliked most.
~ John Wyndham