Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred North Whitehead

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Alfred North Whitehead

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

Aldo Leopold

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

A. J. Jacobs

I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.

Abbie Cornish

Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

A. A. Milne

Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look ready for Anything.

Agatha Christie

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

Toni Trucks

My hometown I grew up in in Michigan is really tiny, and they are so excited for all of my adventures my whole life.

Anthony Bourdain

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

Tim Johnson

Peter's life was incredibly full -- full of adventure, full of learning, full of teaching, full of love.

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq,

on-line side was a new adventure for us.

Lorrie Moore

Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.

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Jane Smiley

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

J. J. Johnson

There are multitudes whose life is nothing but a continuous lottery; who are always within a few months of plenty and happiness, and how often soever they are mocked with blanks, expect a prize from the next adventure

Jennifer Armintrout

I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects. Before the advent of self-publishing, there were plenty of self-indulgent novels on the shelves.

I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.

I looked like Robin Hood going through the 18, ... an adventure in itself.

Kermit Ruffins

My home had ten feet of water and I had nine-foot ceilings. The first month was easy to keep your spirits up, because it was like, this adventure ... But now, we're over two months in and the fun's gone out of it and I just want to go home. I lost a couple of cars and the roof was gone from my house. Both of our drummers, their houses were submerged under water completely. They lost everything.

Maybe 20 years from now you'll be writing about me. And I'll be like Susan - hosting a Fresh Air Fund kid. I'd get to take the kid on whole new adventures that he or she has never been on before.

Doug Macdonald

Getting used to that is going to be an adventure for me, and maybe it will make me a better transportation secretary because all of us need transportation too.

William White

From 40 to 60 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership. He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

If adventure does not wait on the doorstep, climb out through the window

Olivier Theyskens

I find him very enlightening. If there is something inspiring you -- if it's an adventure with H&M -- you have to do it. You must not hold back.

I am convinced with the advent of an early winter in the Northern Hemisphere in just six short months, we will see a resurgence of SARS that could far exceed our experience to date,

C. S. Lewis

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

Burt Reynolds

Friends come in herds and they leave in herds. Hollywood loves an adventure, but you have to hit bottom. Then they love to save you and be a part of it. Or think they're a part of it.

Alan Cranston

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

Eckhart Tolle

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

Elie Wiesel

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.