Quotes About Adventure

I've always wanted to go to Australia. I hear it's a great place. I mean, kangaroos are pretty awesome. That's an up factor.

I'm not afraid to have my heart broken and go out and meet people.

I'm quite a restless holidaymaker - I can't lie down on the sand and don't like too much heat.

When I came to Australia, it was like heaven.

Who knows what the heck the future will bring.

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

I'm not much of a hectic packer and prefer to travel light.

I do have a fear of heights.

Luckily, I'm not afraid of heights.

I, like everybody else, have a certain fear of heights, and I have to be very careful when I am in the clouds, but it is also what I love; it is my domain, so when you love something, you don't have fear.

I know my family's adventures must scare a lot of you who have rarely or never been into the wild or are afraid of heights and exposure.

If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that's a day's work, something I was very happy to do.

I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.

Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

It's been a hell of a roller-coaster ride for me.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

There was no club but the Hells Angels as far as I was concerned.

I've climbed Stromboli when it's erupting, which is quite a heavy climb: three hours with a helmet to get to the top. When you're there, and it's dark, and you can see this eruption and feel it, it's quite different to watching it on TV.

I've put on a helmet more times than I've buckled a seatbelt.

Of course, when you climb, you have to carry your gear and so having a really light-but-strong backpack from Osprey has always been helpful for me.

The ones that I love of 'I Love Lucy' are when one of them decides they need something, and the other one is along for the ride, sort of as the voice of reason, and is helping and making it worse.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

I always envision myself being a Hemingway type.

It's great to play the hero. You get all the good stuff. You're in it all the way through.