Adventure Quotes
Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.
I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.
Life's most beautiful and inspiring moments occur at 3am, just prowling, looking for nothing but always finding something.
Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury
We are going to hell together. But we're coming back alive. Don't forget that.
Marry me, Zelda. We'll make it all up as we go. What do you say?
A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening...
Even if that is the truth, ” Derkein said, “what does it have to do with my father suddenly thinking he can raise the dead?
For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.
I do not insist, " answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
Meeting a vampire is kind of like a celebrity sighting, but where the celebrity possibly wants to kill you.
Can't abide adventure. 'Adventure' is a word people use to put a shine on lack of preparation and surviving through dumb luck.
Do you know how fast you are walking? ... To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30... :)
Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.
Roald Amundsen says that ‘Adventure is just bad planning.’ In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!
The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.
A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.
Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.
There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.
The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.
Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.
Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth.
In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.
Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.
The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end.
Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage.
My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.
It was a well-known fact that keeping track of time was not Parry Pretty's forte...If time were Parry's pet, it would have died tied to a tree somewhere out back long ago.
For white people, nothing makes them appreciate the gift of life more than voluntarily trying to end it.
Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to.
Merciful God!" sighed the General. "We've arrived." And it was true. For there was the sea, and on the other side of the sea was the world.
But look after yourself - there will be great dangers on the way. Remember, the right road is never the easy road.
Enjoy the adventure, because that’s what it’s all about - the process, not the result. The ultimate result is death. The ultimate process is life. Fact.
I don't want adventure.""I think you do. I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.
He might not like that she'd dated the guy one, but he didn't want him dead. Most of the time.
Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.
The contortions of the gargoyles were the only therapy we had.
