Terry Pratchett Quotes

Whenever I do talks around the country, I map out my run. Gives me something fun to do and to look forward to doing.

Hiking, scuba diving - I just love getting out and doing things.

I've been canyoning, snorkelled a shipwreck, and learnt to Irish dance, all in the same week.

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

I was a risk-taker as a young man, and I don't regret it. I'm not adventurous in quite the same way now, but I still love the challenge of testing myself to the limits, flying around the world, or seeing if I can be the first to fly a balloon across the Atlantic, or trying to take people into space at an affordable price in an environmentally friendly way. I'll be going into space with three generations of my family!

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive of travel and doing whatever I thought I needed to do.

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

It's just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong.

You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a million billion records. I like climbing mountains or going on undersea dives for whales and stuff like that.

Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Canoe + waterfall = I don't go camping anymore.

Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

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

Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.

A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.