Quotes about Adventure

Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work. John McTiernan, the director, is not Ingmar Bergman. He does action-adventure movies. To explore the mysteries of memory is to embark on the mind's greatest adventure. What I am proposing is to start a new chapter in Europe. To begin this adventure anew, and differently, if you'd like. The institutions as such aren't particularly important to me - and I think most people feel the same. Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me. New love is an adventure, a new wife is a whole story. Give me an adventure. I'm not talking about some massive adventure. Just something that would make getting fired seem small. Something that I might remember when I'm old.' 'I can't predict the future,' I said, 'but based on what little I know so far, I'm afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing.' 'Great!' 'Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial. I have to thank Leicester City Football Club. The adventure was amazing and will live with me forever. We'd be better off if the whole purpose of the adventure in Iraq was, say, to protect Israel or to protect the flow of oil to America and keep it at a reasonable price and try to get some more control. If it was about oil, going into Iraq, I guess, could have made sense. But at a certain point, when the insurgency began and we were in real trouble, there would have been some awareness that we were going to jeopardize the oil. Life is a moment by moment adventure to be lived, not a story to be completed or an image to be upheld. Conclusions are not your job. In this moment, answers are not required. I may be walking in zigzags, but every step is a new adventure! The adventure seeker is a man who likes to look at the face of death. I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from the '30s and '40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film. I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb. I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before. The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong. Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn't know it. What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick. Every life comes with a story ... and a possibility for a great adventure. I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure. I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic. I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before. I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time... I was going on this desert adventure with some friends and we were like, 'How amazing would it be to just drag all these mirrors out there?' A lot of times I do things as an impulse and find out my inspirations afterward. Even with songs and lyrics, it can take me years to find out what I was actually trying to do. For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas. Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home. Art is an adventure that never seems to end. I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.