Jean Shepherd Quotes

"Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.

I love adventures.

I like adventure.

So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

I love the fast lane.

Leaving the house is a big enough occasion for me, so getting on a plane and flying across the world and playing to a room full of people is just out of this world.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

I love to ski and drive fast cars and the thrill of exciting things.

I was in Mauritius, shooting for 'Break Ke Baad,' and I went for skydiving. It was a life-changing experience. Travelling, dancing, and reading are my other pastimes.

I always liked speed.

I've flown from Aspen and then to Switzerland the next day and then off again the day after. That's the thing I love most about snowboarding, honestly - getting to travel and explore different places and meet people.

I like to find adventure.

I like going on adventures or excursions.

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

Snowboarding has taken me so many different places.

Speed and danger don't always go together, but it's proper fun when they do.

I love pace. I love it.