Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Adventures only make you late for dinner.

J. R. R. Tolkien

his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.

J. R. R. Tolkien

You aren't nearly through this adventure yet.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

Isaac Asimov

If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.

Before the advent of video games, bridge was a very popular college game. If they weren't in class, they were playing bridge, unless they were asleep.

Jessa Gamble

Before the advent of artificial light, we had 13, 14 hours in bed every night... and so what we experience now is about a 40% contraction of how we used to sleep, and I for one am glad of that - I don't want to spend 13 hours in bed.

Neale Donald Walsch

I tell you this: There is no coincidence, and nothing happens "by accident." Each event and adventure is called to your Self by your Self in order that you might create and experience Who You Really Are.

Milan Kundera

No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner or later becoming the cause of other events and thus changing into a story or an adventure. Episodes are like land mines. The majority of them never explode, but the most unremarkable of them may someday turn into a story that will prove fateful to you.

Joseph Addison

There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into distress, and to ruin innocence. When men of rank and figure pass away their lives in these criminal pursuits and practices, they ought to consider that they render themselves more vile and despicable than any innocent man can be, whatever low station his fortune or birth have placed him in.

Jose Bergamin

Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.

Kenneth Grahame

Toad, with no one to check his statements or to criticize in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that he related belonged more properly to the category of what-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of-it-in-time-instead-of-ten-minutes-afterwards. Those are always the best and raciest adventures; and why should they not be truly ours, as much as the somewhat inadequate things that really come off?

Kenneth Grahame

Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

Kellan Lutz

I lived in a tiny Midwest town, so I was always looking for adventure.

Kelley Armstrong

This is the first adventure I’ve survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? I’d call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

Joe Wright

I don't ever want to go backwards, I quite like it. I like the freedom and I like the - What I set out to do was to make a big action-adventure movie that ticks all the boxes in terms of audience expectations and spectacle, and yet also make a very personal film and it feels like I've gotten away with that, I've managed that.

Joaquin Miller

He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"

Norman Vincent Peale

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

Emile Hirsch

I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

Emile Hirsch

The traveling and adventure always lift my spirits soaring with exhilaration.

Emily Bronte

No coward soul is mine.

Emily Dickinson

Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear.

Ellen Potter

It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

Ellen Potter

All great adventures have moments that are really crap.

Ella Maillart

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

All of the skills we developed in corporate came to bear in this adventure.

And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.