Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Scott Peck

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

Gloria Estefan

The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog

Karl Albrecht

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Gloria Steinem

It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.

H. G. Wells

Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges him for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, to risk an even a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me that there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made to go about safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. ... against his interest, against his happiness, he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him, and he must go.

H. L. Mencken

As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those who have been so fortunate as to come into the world foolish. Expressing skepticism that adventure does not necessarily contribute to scientific knowledge.

H. L. Mencken

The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. ... A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously.

H. L. Mencken

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

Jack London

But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless. If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

Garth Nix

But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

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.

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.

Gerard Way

Every big adventure should feel like your last. Every attempt should feel like a final charge up the hill. Tomorrow doesn't exist.

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.

James Cameron

With ‘Avatar,’ I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys’ adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mold, like John Carter of Mars—a soldier goes to Mars,

Jacqueline Cochran

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.

Jacqueline Bisset

Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

Gary Snyder

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

Frederic Chopin

A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played the Allegro and the Scherzo more or less correctly. I was about to attack the March when suddenly I saw arising from the body of my piano those cursed creatures which had appeared to me one lugubrious night at the Chartreuse. I had to leave for one instant to pull myself together after which I continued without saying anything.

Hortense Odlum

Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready, our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.

Hortense Odlum

Adventure, without it, why live?

James Broughton

Life is adventure, not predicament.

J. R. R. Tolkien

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I'm going on an adventure!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Adventures make one late for supper.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.