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Adventure Quotes


"To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face."


"We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand."


"I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die."


"Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible."


"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples."


"In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form."


"The promise of adventure is often more exciting than the adventure itself."


"Any game plan? Xypher asked Sin.Don't die.I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me.Kat scoffed at his sarcasm. What are you bitching about, Xypher? You're already dead.He laughed. You know, for once, it's good to be me."


"At the very leadt, we can grab Monica and hustle her skanky ass back to her dad wile you brave, strong menfolk hold off the bad guys. Right?"


"The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure."


"In wolf form, Ryan stalked through the woods, his hunger - and anger - mounting each second that passed. He'd just found out from Ana that Teresa had gone riding out to check the fence lines. By herself.... Panic hummed through him as he raced through a small patch of trees, lush and green now that it was spring."


"I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something."


"We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure."


"Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows, when one visits strange new lands one must be aware of their customs."


"The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days."


"There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'"


"In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent."


"If you want to know the age of the Earth-look upon the sea in a storm. But what storm can fully reveal the heart of a man? Between Suez and the China Sea are many nameless men who prefer to live and die unknown. This is the story of one such man. Among the great gallery of rogues and heroes thrown up on the beaches and ports-no man was more respected or more damned than-Lord Jim."


"I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers."


"Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing."


"I enjoy the wild things, Call me at 3 am and tell me you're waiting at my door. Give me sunsets in different cities and road trips on dirt tracks not sighted on maps. Whiskey for breakfast & cheap thrills for dinner. Give me happiness in a smile and nothing of certainty but the way we make eachother feel. There so much life in living while you're alive & id give absolutely anything to have it all with you."


"It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country."


"Every voyage is a new glorious experience."


"Betrayal means breaking ranks and going off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown."


"I sail on the ocean of possibilities with the wind of hope and the current of desires moving me to the shore of uncertainty."


"City of Vassillian a party of five sage princes with four horses. The princes, who are of course brave, noble and wise, travel widely in distant lands, fight giant ogres, pursue exotic philosophies, take tea with weird gods and rescue beautiful monsters from ravening princesses before finally announcing that they have achieved enlightenment and that their wanderings are therefore accomplished. The second, and much longer, part of each song would then tell of all their bickerings about which one of them is going to have to walk back. All this lay in the planet's remote past."


"He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!"


"The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered."


"Throwing yourself into the purse of a dream is the biggest adventure you can take on."



"Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt."


"There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been."


"An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."


"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."


"Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip."


"Writing a novel is like having a dream."


"Everyday take one optimistic calculated risk to find out how far you can go."
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