Calamity Jane Quotes

In spring of 1876, we were ordered north with General Crook to join Gen'ls Miles, Terry and Custer at Big Horn river. During this march I swam the Platte river at Fort Fetterman as I was the bearer of important dispatches. I had a ninety mile ride to make, being wet and cold, I contracted a severe illness and was sent back in Gen. Crook's ambulance to Fort Fetterman where I laid in the hospital for fourteen days.

I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.

I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.

Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.

When I was 12, my friend and I tried to sneak onto a plane from my hometown of Cleveland to New York City! My dad encouraged us - he was a wild guy, big on jokes.

I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.

As I told a friend of mine once who asked me why I joined Mercury, I think if I had been alive 150 years ago, I might have wanted to go out and help open up the West.

I love to be in projects that take risks.

Scrambling, when no one's around, getting down, getting out of bounds, taking a glancing blow, those are all fine. You can do that all day long.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly." ~Harry Dresden

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

...life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live.

Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

I still try to do what I've always said I would do, which is say yes to the things that make my heart beat faster, particularly if there's something scary about it.

Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out.

You must make bold experiments in life!

C'est courageux d'aller dans l'inconnu': It is courageous to go into territory unknown.

How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.