Quotes About Adventure

We would say we would play every pay toilet and use our own change. Across America and across the world, we just kept going and going.

If you're embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don't forget the toilet paper.

I spent three weeks on a converted shrimp trawler with 17 people, two toilets, and one shower, all the while diving every day with very active sharks.

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.

I love New York. I'm taking English lessons there for the first time. I used to live in Tokyo, but I needed something new. I'm really close to my family. I miss them all the time, but we Skype a lot.

I love eating in San Francisco, Chiang Dao, China, Tokyo, Hanoi.

I grew up in Paris and in Japan. My parents didn't have any kind of glamorous jobs or anything - it just happened. We moved a lot and wanted to go to Tokyo, so we did it. They were never afraid to give up on the present and move on.

I always wanted to go to Tokyo. Even when I was a kid, it was one destination I always wanted to go to.

I went to Tokyo when I was a child, but there's still so much of the country I'd like to explore.

My dad really wanted to work in Tokyo and he made it happen. That's important in the way that I grew up. If my parents wanted to do something, then they would do it, and they always push me to try things, to not be afraid of changes and to go out in the world and not be bound by what we're supposed to do.

I've always been a bit of a daredevil, even as a little girl with a pretty high pain tolerance and things like that.

My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people's. I don't want to exaggerate my bravado. I haven't been on the front lines. I haven't ever stepped on a land mine.

We all have our levels of risk tolerance. People who have decided they want to go to space are going to go.

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

I found that I not only tolerated taking risks, I loved it.

'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started it again.

I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'

I loved Tolkien and I loved 'Star Wars,' which was the first memory that I have being in a movie theater. And, of course, that was the defining movie for me as a kid.

Travel takes a toll on you.

I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.

I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'

It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.