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Adventure Quotes


"You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?"


"Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?"


"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."


"He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer."


"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."


"She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk ..."


"What happened out there?"I almost got quarking toasted by a dragon."A dragon, he repeats, scandalized. "Are you mad? Or have you been skulking around the bars of Barbary XIII?"


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


"I certainly hadn't expected to walk away from today's trip with joint custody of a miniature dragon."



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


"Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No reasonable offer refused."


"It seems that the young woman made some indelicate suggestion of a threesome...When I got there, Miss Nash was standing by the hot tub in a small bikini, pointing the business end of a SIG-Sauer P-226 at her fella and concerned members of the hotel staff, while dunking the scantily clad female's head under the water and asking, "Who's diving for clams now, bitch?"



"Trudging alone along that black road, sometimes in the teeth of wind and rain, and watching the white distant gleam of convolvulus through the park railings, gave me an exhilarating sensation of adventure."


"She was a gypsy, as soon as you unravelled the many layers to her wild spirit she was on her next quest to discover her magic. She was relentless like that, the woman didn't need no body but an open road, a pen and a couple of sunsets."


"Follow me down, Alice Faye Dahl. I know the way."


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


"So...Mason, Eddie, and Mia went to Spokane to hunt Strigoi?""Yes.""Holy shit. Why didn't you go with them? Seems like something you'd do."I resisted the urge to smack him. "Because I'm not insane! But I'm going to go get them before they do something even stupider."


"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."


"My life is an adventure." she said, growing confident as she opened her eyes again. "I will not be shackled to this satellite anymore."


"It's like you're averse to adventure."


"Don't you think it's actually harder for you . . . to adapt, I mean? Because you've done all that stuff?''Are you asking me if I wish I'd never done it?''I'm just wondering if it would have been easier for you. If you'd led a smaller life. To live like this, I mean.''I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, if you're stuck in one of these, all you have are the places n your memory that you can go to.' He smiled. It was tight, as if it cost him. 'So if you're asking me would I rather be reminiscing about the view of the caste from the minimart, or that lovely row of shops down off the roundabout, then, no. My life was just fine, thanks."



"Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends."


"I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something.""I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature living in the cave?" Tiara said. "Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around.""What happened?" Miss Ohio asked."I don't know. My parents got divorced in the middle of season two and we lost our TiVo."


"Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure."


"But, as I say, I was toofull of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have neverknown danger may doubt it) too desperate to die."


"If you knew what lies ahead on the path, it would not be an adventure, now would it?"


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


"If your life is not an adventure then you are not truly alive."


"YOU can find and shit in the awesome places."



"I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places."


"There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in a series, it's like chocolate ganache on the icing on the cake."


"God beckons me to exhilarating adventures that are without number, beyond all conceivable boundaries, and effortlessly eclipse the furthest reaches of my imagination, all while I sit languishing in stifling adventures of my own limited creation."


"An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."


"You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers."


"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."
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