Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe...But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer.

Neil Gaiman

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Neil Gaiman

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

John Muir

Most people are on the world, not in it.

John Muir

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

John Muir

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

John Muir

None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.

John Muir

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

John Muir

I never saw a discontented tree.

Marilyn French

Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.

Nick Cave

It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

Sherman Alexie

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

Sebastian Pinera

I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.

Sebastian Junger

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

Tom Cruise

I love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It's pure cinema and you go in and you're lost to it. To me, it's that challenge - I want to give an audience that ride, that entertainment.

Rajneesh

The greatest adventure that can happen to a human being is the movement from mind to no-mind, the movement from personality to individuality. The no-mind has an individuality: the mind is social.

Snoop Dogg

Drop it like it's hot.

Mercedes Lackey

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

Michelle Wie

I don't mind when I hit a ball in the woods. I think of it as an adventure. That's when golf really starts to get interesting.

Michael Scott

There are some adventures not worth having.

Theodore Roosevelt

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

Theodore Roosevelt

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Theodore Bikel

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

Thelonious Monk

Jazz is my adventure.

Margaret Mitchell

There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.

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.

Emmet Fox

When you are in difficulties, look upon the overcoming of them as a great adventure.

Jacques Ellul

The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct.

Henry A. Wallace

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

Helen Hunt

I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.

Henry David Thoreau

My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.

Henry David Thoreau

We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.