Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Robbins

Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

Tom Robbins

My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

Tom Robbins

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Tom Robbins

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

Stephen Coonts

All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.

Stephen Covey

The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can relate to your expression and the safer it makes them feel to express themselves. That expression, in turn, feeds on the other person's spirit, and genuine creative empathy takes place, producing new insights and learnings and a sense of excitement and adventure that keeps the process going.

Stephen Covey

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Vanilla Ice

I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.

Vanna Bonta

Essentially Flight is just an adventure of multiple realities.

Valentina Tereshkova

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

V. E. Schwab

I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.

Steven Moffat

Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action-for one of our scariest adventures yet!

Steven Chu

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

Susan Jeffers

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.

Robert Browning

Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.

Ridley Scott

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

Richard Griffiths

It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.

Richard Aldington

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

T. S. Eliot

Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.

Reinhold Messner

Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.

Reinhold Messner

I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.

Rebecca Solnit

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

Rick Steves

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

Rick Wakeman

My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

Trenton Lee Stewart

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

Rebecca Solnit

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

Sonia Choquette

When you breathe into fear it becomes adventure

Stephen Sondheim

The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

Stephen Fry

When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.

Ron Luce

The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.

Roger Staubach

In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.

Virginia Madsen

I want every movie to be like a big family and a great adventure.

Tove Jansson

I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!