Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madonna Ciccone

I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape.

M. Ward

I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

Louis L'Amour

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

Michael Crichton

Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.

Melissa Auf der Maur

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

Margrethe II of Denmark

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

Maria Bello

I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.

Ned Rorem

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.

Neil Armstrong

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Priscilla Presley

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

Kristen Stewart

I like women who have an opinion one way or the other or who have a great sense of humor and a great sense of adventure. I can be friends with women who are not like that, but I don't have that hard emotional connection.

Oliver Goldsmith

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

Marc Almond

I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.

Kid Cudi

I just wanna go on more adventures. Be around good energy. Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow

Kevin Mitnick

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

Kathy Ireland

I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.

Margaret Cavendish

I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.

Mark Twain

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

Laurence J. Peter

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

P. J. O'Rourke

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

Paul Buchheit

Part of the excitement was just seeing how the world would respond. I kind of like uncertainty to some extent, because it's a little bit of suspense and excitement and adventure, almost, right? And you can learn a lot even if things don't work out. But not everyone likes adventure. A lot of people seem to be against uncertainty, actually. In all areas of life.

Patti Hansen

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.

Imtiaz Ali

I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell

Ilka Chase

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

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.

Kate DiCamillo

What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick.

Karl A. Menninger

Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.

Julian Assange

If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.

Julian Assange

If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.

Kathy Griffin

Life is adventure. Travel is adventure at a different address.

Keanu Reeves

But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.