Quotes About Adventure

But we are, by nature, explorers. Motivated by curiosity. This is a uniquely human quality. It is this driven curiosity that sent explorers to prove the Earth is not flat and it is the same instinct that sends us to the stars at the speed of thought, urging us to go there in reality.

What does writing let you do that you couldn't do otherwise?" I answered, quickly, that it let me live the life I loved and to do odd things—falconry, travel, animal keeping. And, I added, "sometimes get paid for them.

Mongolia, which he described as "Montana in the seventeenth century.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

You can't be careful on a skateboard.

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster

where the world ends is where you must begin

A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!

Memory is the basis of every journey.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Books are a uniquely portable magic

Definition Of A Wanderer: A guy who's always looking beyond

What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.

Books were escape. Books were freedom.

Disquiet and desire. What you want and what you're scared to try for. Where you've been and where you want to go. Something in a rock-and-roll song about wanting the girl, the car, the place to stand and be. Oh please God can you dig it.

I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

Go, then, there are other worlds than these.' 

no knowledge obtained without risk