He brushed away the thunder, then the clouds, then the colossal illusion of heaven. Yet still the sky was blue.

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.

“There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed.”

“They had then got to a bridge over the river, where”

“it, for numbers of Rooks and starlings”

“The North Wind and the Sun”

“THE BEAR AND THE TRAVELLERS Two Travellers were on the road together, when a Bear suddenly appeared on the scene. Before he observed them, one made for a tree at the side of the road, and climbed up into the branches and hid there. The other was not so nimble as his companion; and, as he could not escape, he threw himself on the ground and pretended to be dead. The Bear came up and sniffed all round him, but he kept perfectly still and held his breath: for they say that a bear will not touch a dead body. The Bear took him for a corpse, and went away. When the coast was clear, the Traveller in the tree came down, and asked the other what it was the Bear had whispered to him when he put his mouth to his ear. The other replied, “He told me never again to travel with a friend who deserts you at the first sign of danger.”

“Adventures always come to the adventurous, there's no doubt about that!”

"I am in a country which is five hours behind my beloved homeland Pakistan and my home in the Swat Valley."

"We journey towards a home that does not halo our head with a special sun. Mythical women applaud us. A sea for us, a sea against us."

I wan’t a girl who is fun and loves adventure.

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

"That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!"

"Great opportunities can be and have been created during tough economic times."

"Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research."

"Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself."

"Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt put it aside. Go for a swim, go for a walk, take a week off. Don't panic or be afraid; you and your characters are in it together. Trust them to come to your rescue."

"The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages."

"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea."

"In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival."

"We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown."

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

"Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel."

"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."