Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

Anais Nin

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

Anne Graham Lotz

Faith is like a tender plant, rooted in Christ alone, watered by the Spirit and the Word, strengthened by the winds of adversity and the sunshine of blessing.

Andrew Weil

If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly.

Chuck Palahniuk

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.

Chuck Palahniuk

Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.

Chuck Palahniuk

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and adressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. [...] The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Christy Turlington

We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.

Christopher Reeve

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

Christopher Reeve

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

Christopher McCandless

But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Christopher McCandless

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Christopher McCandless

...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Christopher Morley

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

Christopher Moore

An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.

Anselm of Canterbury

Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

Annie Proulx

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

Ansel Adams

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

Anne Bronte

I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me.

Angelina Jolie

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Angelina Jolie

You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.

Anthony Head

One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently.

Anne Tyler

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

Anna Katharine Green

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

Angela Cartwright

Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.

Angela Kinsey

I'm sure, to many people, my life is not that exciting, but to me every day is an adventure.

Angela Davis

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

Alvin Ailey

Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.

Alma Gluck

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.

Andrew Sullivan

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

Andre Kostelanetz

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

Andrea Arnold

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

Andre Maurois

Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.