Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Surely you do not disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine per

Jim Cummings

Sterling Holloway, the actor who had originally voiced Pooh, decided to retire in the mid-1980s. Disney decided that they wanted to continue this character with their 'New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' TV series.

Earl Woods

Playing Through: Straight Talk on Hard Work, Big Dreams, and Adventures with Tiger

Playing live is what we do, It's an adventure for us as well as the audience.

Barry Lopez

What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers and other entrepreneurs north? Or is it, rather, to have a good family life and to be imbued with a far-reaching and intimate knowledge of one’s homeland, which is what the Tununirmiut told the whalers at Pond’s Bay wealth was? Is it to retain a capacity for awe and astonishment in our lives, to continue to hunger after what is genuine and worthy? Is it to live at moral peace with the universe?

C. S. Lewis

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

Berkeley Breathed

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

Richard Branson

I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes.

Andrew Sullivan

Just as Muslim newspapers the world over continue to print disgusting cartoons about Jews and then riot when very mild cartoons about Islam are printed, Hayes has a clear double standard. Here's hoping. Down with the Super Adventure Club!.

Bertrand Russell

The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.

Robert Rodriguez

The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D

Illeana Douglas

The Adventures of Pluto Nash, by the time it came out, it was completely different from what we had signed up for. I don't know what happened.

Rachel Platten

The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.

The Adventure Club is about good music, regardless if it's local or not. I'd like to think he'd play our songs even if we were from Mexico, so it's nice for him to recognize us.

Julian Barnes

I think he had a quite sort of ambiguous relationship to Holmes. It made him rich, it made him famous, but as often the case with these things, a writer can turn against his or her most successful creation; hence, he killed him off (in 'The Adventure of the Final Problem') and brought him back by popular request. And, of course, people did sort of confuse them and assume if he could invent these complicated mysteries, then he could also solve them.

I thought I might make a few grand but I've made a fortune. It's been a crazy adventure.

Colin Trevorrow

'Jurassic Park' movies don't fit into a specific genre. They're sci-fi adventures that also have to be funny, emotional, and scary as hell. That takes a lot of construction, but it can't feel designed.

Paul Williams

I'm still on an adventure but it's more without a goal then it was in the earlier years. I'm letting myself be led to the places I think I want to go.

He is very idealistic. He has many convictions. He is very pro-democracy, very compassionate, always helping out others, he's very driven. Those are more characteristics of Farris than adventurous. This is the first adventure he's been on.

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.

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.

I think it's a fun, redeeming story. You will go through love and drama and conflict and heartache and adventure. You name it, it's in there.

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.

James Carroll

He's a great writer, but he's also the first writer-celebrity. His story as an expatriate and as an adventurer competes with his work.

Going to the Acolyte Festival was another way for us to participate in the global Episcopal community. We got to share the adventure with other churches in our diocese, but it also gave us the opportunity to be part of something much bigger and to enrich our young acolytes with the Episcopal culture from other American states.

He's bilingual, and he has a sense of adventure.

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

Rupert Holmes

For me, the most memorable adventures are still the perils that we face daily in life and love, from the mundane to the meaningful. Where the comedy is often at our own expense, but where the drama, even if painful, reminds us that we are living and feeling here in the real time, with the ever-recurring possibility that this latest chapter will end with new understanding, hope and perhaps even happiness.

Go Beyond is about going beyond personal boundaries and experiencing adventure in its many forms. As part of our vision, we are launching Go Beyond as an avenue for our owners and potential customers to experience our brand anywhere they have a broadband connection.

We looked at every vehicle in the off-road market. The Rhino was the only vehicle that was capable of delivering on the thrill seeker's need for adventure while meeting our critical criteria for ease of use, safety and easy maintenance. An adventure of this kind is not available anywhere else in the world!