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Adventure Quotes



"Alice jumped from flagstone to flagstone, her face caught in the rainlight glow, her hand grasping for a touch of gold. The towns excitement was contagious, and the air was so thick with promise Alice could almost bite into it."


"Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure."


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


"It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original."


"To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism."



"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream."



"Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find."



"Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us-long-range radar, still not in sight.Piper leaned over the console. "Are you sure they're Roman?Leo rolled his eyes. "No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they're Roman!"


"The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea."


"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"


"For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life."


"Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom."


"There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t."


"Their bodies lay flatly on the rocks, and their eyes regarded him with evil interest: but it does not appear that Mr. Fison was afraid, or that he realized that he was in any danger. Possibly his confidence is to be ascribed to the limpness of their attitudes. But he was horrified, of course, and intensely excited and indignant at such revolting creatures preying upon human flesh. He thought they had chanced upon a drowned body. He shouted to them, with the idea of driving them off, and, finding they did not budge, cast about him, picked up a big rounded lump of rock, and flung it at one.And then, slowly uncoiling their tentacles, they all began moving towards him - creeping at first deliberately, and making a soft purring sound to each other."



"A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel."



"Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all."


"Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass."


"Explore new adventures."


"A journey - whether it's to the corner grocery or through life - is supposed to have a beginning, middle, and end, right? Well, the road is not like that at all. It's the very illogic and the juxtaposed differences of the road - combined with our search for meaning - that make travel so addictive."


"Endless seas, mean endless adventures."



"I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it's so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling."


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


"Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore."


"Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling.But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure."



"There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping."


"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."


"Don't seek security; seek adventure. It is uncertainty that makes life worth living."
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