You may say, ‚Well, dragons don’t exist.‘ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‚predator‘ and the category ‚dragon‘ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.
Jordan PetersonThe balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.
Richard BransonThere’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.
David ByrneI spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.
Elizabeth KennyI got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.
Jane GoodallIf one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya AngelouI was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.
Edmund HillaryTolkien is eminently filmable, I think. ‚The Lord of the Rings‘ is intensely… landscaped. But ‚Discworld‘ is about dialogue, which is one reason why it might be hard to film.
Terry PratchettBuy the ticket, take the ride.
Hunter S. ThompsonTo the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. RowlingI have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.
Edmund HillaryOn the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Edmund HillaryClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John MuirThere is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest HemingwayNothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston ChurchillHong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.
Anthony BourdainAny East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.
Stephen CurryI’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.
Bob DylanFantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.
Terry PratchettFantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Terry PratchettI think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‚The Colour of Magic‘ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‚The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.‘
Terry PratchettOver the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
Barack ObamaI’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.
George BestThe word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Billy GrahamThe outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.
Bill GatesFantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
Dr. SeussI was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.
Haruki MurakamiThere is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.
Richard BransonWhile on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund HillaryI’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.
Virat KohliAnyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.
Anthony BourdainI have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.
Hunter S. ThompsonLike all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin DisraeliWhen I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
Terry PratchettI guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.
Paul AusterThe gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert EinsteinThe whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
Gilbert K. ChestertonFables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
HypatiaI am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.
Christopher ColumbusA hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
Florence NightingaleA life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Bertrand RussellIt is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.
J. R. R. TolkienHere ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.
John MuirI believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?
John LennonI’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.
Richard BransonLand on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.
Elon MuskAll cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt DisneyWhen I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
Edmund HillaryA safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TolkienI still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.
Christopher HitchensThere is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.
Jim MattisThose Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Vincent Van GoghA good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao TzuAn inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.
AuroraI love to travel, but hate to arrive.
Albert EinsteinI’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
Lady GagaI loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.
Angelina JolieWell, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
Richard BransonI love trying new things.
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