Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin McKinley

Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.

Roberto Assagioli

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

Roberta Williams

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

Roberta Williams

I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.

Roberta Williams

My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.

Robert Rauschenberg

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.

Robert Plant

Austin - it's a stimulating center. In this conversation, the very first two questions were talking about my kind of wanderlust and my adventures. Some people at my time in life travel forever. I don't know whether it's the British or the Australians - whoever it is, you can kind of stagger into some sort of far-off bastion in the middle of nowhere, and you'll find someone from Britain or someone from Australia or maybe an American.

Robert Plant

Life is life. You do a lot of different things and you have great adventures but there's not a lot to talk about unless you're in the middle of an adventure at the time. Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.

Robert Plant

I kind of disguise my limitations by hanging out with very talented people. The excitement of the collision between the microphone-twirling guy from 1966 to now is just a fantastic adventure. There aren't many of us left and I've managed to kind of cover my tracks pretty good.

Sarah MacLean

do not like this taste for adventure you have developed, sister.” “I am afraid I cannot guarantee I shall be rid of it anytime soon.

Sarah MacLean

I enjoyed every bit of the evening. I may not drink scotch or smoke a cheroot again, but I shall always cherish the fact that I did those things. The adventure is well worth the disappointing experience.

Sara Sheridan

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

Sara Sheridan

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

Sara Sheridan

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

Samuel Ullman

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Samuel Johnson

A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.

Robert Baden-Powell

It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.

Rob Mariano

Who knows, I have always lived one day at a time. Probably more adventure and excitement.

Rob Mariano

I love adventure, so I'm excited to be working on something new and making the transition from reality show contestant to host.

Richard Russo

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

Robert Dale Owen

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Roald Amundsen

With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.

Richard Rohr

THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.

Trey Anastasio

We want to have a spontaneous adventure. You can't plan an adventure, or it ceases to be one.

Robin Williams

Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure.

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.

William Henry Harrison

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Walter de La Mare

Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery.

Walter Bagehot

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

William Bligh

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.