In those far off days, legendary folk trod the glory road…

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols…

— Neil Gaiman

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to…

— Lewis Thomas

A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure.

— Celestine Sibley

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

— Norman Cousins

“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took…

— Joe Niemczura

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a…

— Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless

What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.

— Jessica Yu

I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening…

— Rae Armantrout

I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth…

— Beryl Markham

I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests…

— Richard Branson

I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody…

— Ben Eine

I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

— Russell Howard