There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life..

Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed..

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound..

Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelera….

If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle….

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling….

One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may ….

I enjoyed every bit of the evening. I may not drink scotch or smoke a cheroot again, but I shall always cherish the fact that I did those things. The….

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere..

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. B….

I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable..

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder..

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an ….

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure..

There are people who prefer to say ‘Yes’, and there are people who prefer to say ‘No’. Those who say ‘Yes’ are rewarded by the adventures they have, ….

Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the fi….

Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate us we will find that….

You have to be again innocent, ignorant, not knowing anything, so that the questions can start arising again. Again the inquiry becomes alive, and wi….

You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, bu….

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons..

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when….