Quotes about Adventure

She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight - that, in fact, you are exploring a closed basin.

I used to think I could never bear life if it kept on being the same every day, and I must always be doing things of no consequence and never know anything greater.

'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.