Quotes about Adventure
To upset everything every 3 or 4 years is my notion of a happy life.
- Virginia Woolf
I addressed my self as one would speak to a companion with whom one is voyaging to the North Pole.
- Virginia Woolf
To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not.
- Virginia Woolf
Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair— He took her bag.
- Virginia Woolf
I make it a rule to try everything, she said. Don't you think it would be very annoying if you tasted ginger for the first time on your deathbed, and found you never liked anything so much? I should be so exceedingly annoyed that I think I should get well on that account alone.
- Virginia Woolf
To be flung into the sea, to be washed hither and thither, and driven about the roots of the world—the idea was incoherently delightful. She sprang up, and began moving about the room, bending and thrusting aside the chairs and tables as if she were indeed striking through the waters. He watched her with pleasure; she seemed to be cleaving a passage for herself, and dealing triumphantly with the obstacles which would hinder their passage through life.
- Virginia Woolf
Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her brest buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and wind in her hair— he took her bag.
- Virginia Woolf
I suppose I should make all the skis six foot and let Leif grow into them. That way we could all use them easy enough." He shook his head. "I know my wife would love to ski again. You ever seen anyone carry a baby in a sling or backpack while on skis?
- Lauraine Snelling
An English man does not travel to see English men.
- Laurence Sterne
I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you're not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.
- Celine Dion
Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us!
- Charles Dickens
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
- Charles Dickens