Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

Paulo Coelho

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

Mariah Carey

It's kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don't get on the ride, you won't experience the adventure.

Maurice Sendak

Inside all of us is HOPE. Inside all of us is FEAR. Inside all of us is ADVENTURE. Inside all of us is A WILD THING.

Maynard Ferguson

I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz'... it's an adventure.

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.

As far as kids' influence, they're already influenced a lot more by their parents and what they see on TV than what they'll ever see at Adventure Park.

Chris Riddell

As a child, I copied Tenniel's illustrations from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' obsessively, particularly his drawing of the white rabbit in waistcoat and frockcoat, umbrella tucked under one arm and a fob watch in paw, a look of suppressed panic in his eye.

Jean Fritz

As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have reached an understanding, then I begin the detective work reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises, and of course, I pass them on.

The Bunbury Festival has been like a conveyor belt for England cricketers - and is the start of the production line. The minute we meet - on the first day of the Bunbury Festival, they get the speech and a handshake, and their Bunbury adventure starts. They become Bunburys for life.

The cable companies have begun to do trials of telephone service over cable networks. I think this acquisition will speed things up. The combination of AT&T's financial muscle and the advent of Internet based telephony will be the two things that will push that along, and I would think you would be seeing Internet telephony over cable systems in the next three years.

Ray Davies

('Other People's Lives') is my first attempt to make a studio album that's got original songs on it, and it's a completely new adventure for me.

People can't go climbing mountains or go on Lara Croft adventures or go down damp, dark dungeons killing monsters, ... They've got to live with what is reality -- they can't play for England at football, but through games they can. You know, it's three dimensional dreaming.

Peter Diamandis

Adventure travel is the fastest growing segment of the leisure travel business. And these X-Prize vehicles are basically the first step for future space-seeking adventure travelers,

Adventure travel is an exercise in discovery. Everyone's got their own adventure quotient, from casual bird watching to hiking the Sierras.

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

Suborbital flights will offer millions of people the opportunity to experience the greatest adventure available, space travel.

Stories can take you anywhere. And The Wild can mean anything ù it's any kind of adventure.

Jacques Villeneuve

Spa is a great track! I've got memories of some adventures there, though it's never been lucky for me. It's definitely a track where you can feel stronger than the rest if you go through the corners flat. It's one of the last high-speed circuits that we have and it's a very long lap.

Do you know how many people do more extraordinary adventures than this? There's a 15-year-old kid climbing Mt Everest.

There is, to be sure, a sense of adventure and challenge in articulating our conceptions, despite the fact that we can take so little for granted; and perhaps we tend to underestimate the struggle-element in the case of the earlier composers.

At first, he was thought of as extreme, but later, with the advent of computers, he was able to run large databases and establish a very large empirical record. I can't think of anyone who's had more impact on public finance in the second half of the 20th century.

Chris Doyle

As we've seen the rise of cultural, environmental and educational tourism in adventure travel, we've also seen the rise of female participation. Part of that is due to changes in women's attitudes about their own abilities. As more women participate in such things as fly-fishing, whitewater kayaking and bicycling, we're also seeing concurrent growth in those areas in adventure travel.

As you get older, you become more consistent. With a first-year player, every day is an adventure. You never know which guys are going to show up. I wouldn't say I get frustrated --It's just part of the process.

Matthew Pearl

As new technology emerges as the greatest challenge to novels since the advent of film, it may be that the fragmentation of storytelling into installments key to Dickens's era will be recreated in some way.

Jason Lewis

Allowing viewers to immerse themselves in the adventure and to experience the great highs and lows of the experience is something that is very important to us. We're pleased to be associated with Akimbo and look forward to our ongoing partnership.

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.

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.

It's not just a job, it's an adventure. It goes with the territory. You're going to have some controversy here and there. You've got to learn how to deal with it.

David Thomson

It's not profound literature, but it's an adventure story and quite a good adventure story, very unexpected coming from Brando. It tells us a lot about him.

John Baker

For me, ... it is 50 percent about the skiing and 50 percent about being in the mountains. You have to be very aware of where you are ... there is a sense of adventure about it that is extraordinary. The trip is sort of like an annual gift to myself.