Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malorie Blackman

In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.

I heard about this opportunity, and it just seemed like an adventure.

Jim Murphy

I don't think many of us face the same sort of physical adventures our ancestors did, at least not on a daily basis.

Ingmar Bergman

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

Jack Canfield

Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life.

Jack Canfield

The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure.

It was an adventure. The funny part is, so many things could have gone wrong. It was just like somebody was behind me watching.

Peter Diamandis

It will be a couple of weeks about speed and excitement...technology and adventure for the whole family.

It's a win-win situation. The workers don't only come for adventure. Many have trouble getting jobs back home.

It's what the downtown area needs. A bit more culture. The advent of a culture center could benefit us greatly.

Julia Sawalha

I want to be in 'The Hobbit.' I love fantasy and mythical adventure films. I believe in fairies and angels. I believe in nature's spirit, that there are other realms, other planets, life forms.

The world is becoming a smaller place every day with mobile phones and airlines, so it's an exciting new adventure

They made every catch, every dribble, every pass an adventure for us and put us on our heels. The defensive effort by North Carolina was extraordinary.

Jon Heder

It was just the adventure of creating this thing that we had hopes and dreams about. When we made 'Napoleon,' it was just that feeling of what was going to happen.

Cedric Benson

It's another hurdle, another adventure life has presented me, and I'm going to take it in stride.

It's been an adventure. That's the best way to put it. Never once have we had our best lineup. It's like we've been haunted all year.

It's been an adventure. But really, it's an opportunity for us to be surrounded by all kinds and styles of entertainment. We're a group of creative people in an environment of creativity, which inspires us to create even more.

John Lutz

It's been 41 years as a professional in the school business and before that it was 19 years of actually being a student, so that's quite a few years, so it's time to look ahead for some other exciting adventures in life,

It's already bringing reductions in energy and greenhouse emissions. The economy is growing rapidly, but energy demand is much lower since the advent of the Internet.

It marks the beginning of a new adventure and confirms an even greater commitment to F1.

Lloyd Alexander

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

Madeleine L'Engle

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.

Lucy Lawless

We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.

Louisa May Alcott

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

Louisa May Alcott

I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.

Jonathan Franzen

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

Jon Voight

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

Kate Baldwin

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

Kate Atkinson

Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.

Ovid

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

Paul Verlaine

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.