Adventure Quotes

There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.

~ Peggy Kopman-Owens

For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.

~ Peggy Kopman-Owens

How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him?

~ Peggy Kopman-Owens

Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.

~ Peggy Kopman-Owens

...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.

~ Peggy Kopman-Owens

Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind.

~ Marty Rubin

Stories are made about girls like you. The wild ones, those rare faces that smile in the midst of chaos.

~ Nikki Rowe

You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

There is nothing to lose in life. Be courageous!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Time and space define the sacred moment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

~ Tim Daly

Adventures call a valiant few, happenstance upon calls many.

~ Anastasia Bolinder

Adventures call a valiant few, happenstance calls many.

~ Anastasia Bolinder

...we have a high calling etched into our bones and written on our hearts. God wants to engage us...and deliver us into a life He has dreamed for us... We were made to explore.

~ Richard Foth

It is an exciting adventure, doing what you love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I do not wish to travel around the world. I already have the world trying to travel around me.

~ Lionel Suggs

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

~ S.a. Tawks

Finally we came over a rise and I saw the Caribbean...My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the world by a ring of steep hills that faced the sea. We were on the edge of a large bay and the water was that clear, turquoise color that you get with a white sand bottom. I had never seen such a place. I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

I cadged a complimentary green matchbook with a gold bird icon from the Bell canning jar. Later we'd use the matches to light our spliffs. My fingertips tapped the stem to the gizmo that dinged a bell. Nobody came out. Wrong signal, so I did two bell rings. No response prompted me to tap out a series of bell rings.

~ Ed Lynskey

A fallow mind is a field of discontent.

~ John H. Cunningham

That’s where they found the skeletons. Right where you’re standing.

~ Teresa Flavin

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

~ Dean Koontz

Wait. Is a real, live adult person actually asking me details about the games I play? This is unheard of.

~ Denis Markell

Many believe that the Vatican withheld important parts of the Third Secret, perhaps because its contents were too dangerous to reveal...

~ Peter J. Tanous

Curiosity is the offspring of mystery. For without mystery there be no need for curiosity. Curiosity is the search for the things that can be, it is the inspiration of the true adventurer.

~ Paul Bamikole

Three kilometres beneath the camp, sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth, and whatever secret it may hold, is sealed within a frozen tomb.

~ L.a. Larkin

A killer on the payroll isn't good for business

~ L.a. Larkin

When the lights suddenly go out, hold onto your diamonds for dear life. - Nancy Drew, The Mystery of Lilac Inn

~ Carolyn Keene

Rachel slid inside her silver Kia and slammed the car door, grateful that the museum’s security guard was now watching from a distance. If he hadn’t been, she might have acted on a homicidal impulse and run Chase over, the manipulative jerk. In fact, it made her feel better just to imagine it.

~ Kaylin Mcfarren

In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin’s roofline a bursting fireball.

~ Ed Lynskey

Just the night before, a puma’s howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn’t get any richer than that.

~ Ed Lynskey

The rig began shaking like caffeine withdrawal. --Opening sentence of THE FURY. The duct-taped Buick swam north on Rush Street, hunting whores like a lesser white shark. --First sentence of Chapter One, THE FURY

~ Shane Gericke

As a child I would play with such imagination that the ‘real’ world was never real at all. It was full of mystery, adventure and possibility.

~ Fennel Hudson

If all goes well, we will be back in time for a proper memorial service [for your father], Ben. I promise.Ben looked up, and all the bitterness was gone from his eyes, replaced somehow by both resignation and determination.And if all doesn't go well? he asked, tightening his grip on Coralee's trusting hand as he led her outside to the driveway.Kira's flawless features morphed into something like a smile, yet wholly without happiness or humor.Then you'll all be meeting up with [your father] soon enough, I expect. Either that, or you shall wish it was so.

~ Caitlin Rush

Perhaps the palms had been whispering warnings in the sultry breeze.

~ T.l. Parker

Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.

~ T.l. Parker

One more cockeyed optimist thrown under the reality bus.

~ Deborah Coonts

Adventure is my middle name.

~ Scott Conrad

Expansion of character is connected to expansion of destiny.

~ James Tarantin

The smell of dead fish lingered in the air, and excited flies darted from fish to fish lapping up the decay.

~ S.w. Lothian