Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adventure racing has no place in the X Games. ... The demographic of the athletes and viewers is a little older than that of the skateboarding, BMX and freestyle motocross.

Adventure is not outside a man; it is within

Bill Gates

And we marvel about how, as two young overachievers, we began a great adventure on the fringes of a little-known industry and it landed us at the center of an amazing universe.

Ever since I was a little kid I'd read these adventure books. I'd read about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Every time my dad moved to a new military base, the first thing I'd do was climb the highest hill around, which usually wasn't very high.

Edge is not an off-road adventure vehicle, and it doesn't look like one. The inspiration for the Edge is contemporary design and an adventurous state of mind.

Each day is another adventure, ... We have complex cross currents working in an environment where we have a nasty and negative tone.

Billie Piper

Rose has had adventures and she's a lot more confident as a companion. She's on a par with the Doctor, more so than last year. She's seen some incredible things, terrifying things. This time she's more experienced as a woman, as a companion; she does everything with more conviction. There's stuff that she understands a bit more, so it's a natural progression.

Aside from the physical sensation of hiking the Trail, it became a real intellectual adventure, too - because I was always reading and writing while I was up there. I had lots to think about during the day while I was putting in the miles. I'd be thinking, Oh, Robert Frost was here, and let me think about this Frost poem and this place. It made for some really interesting mind work while I was walking.

Studs Terkel

And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.

Lord Byron

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

Lincoln Steffens

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his life's adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

This approach allows us to take a broad prospective to see what kinds of biological systems are undergoing adaptation. There have been a lot of recent changes--the advent of agriculture, shifts in diet, new habitats, climatic conditions--over the past 10,000 years, and we're using these data to look for those signals of very recent adaptation.

They still think this is a big adventure, and they're thrilled to be able to come up here and go to school with their cousins.

This is an exciting moment as we embark upon uniting the exhilaration of a world class sporting event with what will certainly be one of the most anticipated films of next year, ... There will be plenty of high seas adventures both on screen and off for the next 10 months.

They are the captain of their ship; they have to do a lot. It's been an exciting adventure going from nothing to an expansion.

Gertrude Stein

More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.

Gertrude Stein

Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Love is meant to be an adventure!!

Gordon B. Hinckley

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Herbie Hancock

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

Henry David Thoreau

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

Henry David Thoreau

Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents.

Henry David Thoreau

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

Henry David Thoreau

The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.

Eugene H. Peterson

Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

Ernie Harwell

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

Ernest Hemingway

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.

Erykah Badu

I'm only in competition with my last level.

Ernest Lawrence

Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

Henry Miller

For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.

Helen Keller

Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

Helen Keller

Life is an adventure or nothing