adventure quotes

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

I 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.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

There’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.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

I love trying new things.

Live dangerously and you live right.

Not all those who wander are lost.

Well, 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.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Over 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.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

I 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.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

A 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.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

There 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.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

The 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.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

I 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.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

Hong 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.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

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

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

I’m a wandering gypsy.