Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there is never a lack of mathematicians for the job of transforming delectable ingredients into a dish that tastes like a damp blanket.

George Bernard Shaw

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

Freeman Dyson

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

Erich Maria Remarque

I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

Erica Jong

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

Gary Paulsen

I am happiest in the brush and by myself - whether that's the woods of northern Minnesota or the wilds of Alaska behind a dogteam, picking through the foothills of the mountains by my ranch in New Mexico on horseback, or on the ship of my sailboat on the Pacific - so I guess it made sense to me that both Brian and Samuel would find their challenges and adventures, if that's what you call them, in the woods.

It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience - well, not always, of course, but in actual fact, it is our less successful love affairs that enable us to appreciate the others. I think love protects us from one of the biggest problems facing the modern world: boredom.

It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

Chris Pratt

Film is cool because it's an hour and a half to two hours. It's a great ride. It's typically three acts - beginning, middle and end. It's going on an adventure and by the end it's all cleaned up.

Garth Nix

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

Gail Z. Martin

Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

Fanny Burney

To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!

Ezra Taft Benson

Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

Francis Parkman

America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold.

Francis Bacon

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Martha Stewart

I've always felt that life should be an adventure, that every day should be important ... There can be no doubt that the last three years have certainly been an adventure for me and for all of you. Though it was stressful -- very stressful -- I can say that I don't regret everything.

I'm just extremely relieved for him it's over. But it's not really over, it's just the start of another adventure.

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

Helen Keller

Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.

Cate Blanchett

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

It's inconvenient, no question. But it's also an adventure.

It's inconvenient, no question about it, but it's also an adventure.

Darwin himself was a really fascinating person, an adventurer as well as a scientist,

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.