Famous Quotes & Sayings

I am on a voyage of discovery. I search for those of you who will go on a great adventure . . . if you are one of those audacious few willing to dare and then to share . . . then come with me.

Martha Wells

I do like to write about characters who aren't just starting out, who have had adventures before, who have had a past they aren't that happy looking back on.

Hunter S. Thompson

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

Hulk Hogan

I'd like to be the John Wayne of the '90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.

Howard Thurman

And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.

Ian Ziering

I like action-adventure movies.

James Broughton

Life is adventure, not predicament.

J. R. R. Tolkien

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Surely you don’t 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 person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I'm going on an adventure!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Adventures make one late for supper.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.

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.

Paul Auster

Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.

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.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

Muhammad Iqbal

The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.

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.