#adventure

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#adventure

The game is afoot. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #adventure

Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity? ↗

— Rachel Caine

#adventure

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#reading #adventure

Never trust a man who reads only one book. ↗

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

#adventure

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ↗

— Helen Keller

#avoiding #children #danger #daring #does

Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#adventure

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them... ↗

— William Petersen

#adventure-stories #fiction #fiction-writing #thrillers #unicorns

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#character-defining #melancholy

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey. ↗

— Bill Murray

#international-travel #travel #world-travel #common-sense