Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joaquin Miller

He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"

Norman Vincent Peale

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

Emile Hirsch

I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

Emile Hirsch

The traveling and adventure always lift my spirits soaring with exhilaration.

Emily Bronte

No coward soul is mine.

Emily Dickinson

Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear.

Ellen Potter

It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

Ellen Potter

All great adventures have moments that are really crap.

Ella Maillart

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

All of the skills we developed in corporate came to bear in this adventure.

And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.

Henry Van Dyke

So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown. My heart will keep the courage of the quest, And hope the road’s last turn will be the best.

Henry Morton Stanley

Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

Henry Hudson

This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.

Helen Dunmore

In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.

Kerry Washington

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.

Norman Rockwell

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

Orlando Bloom

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

Orlando Bloom

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it

Oriana Fallaci

Journalism combines adventure with culture.

Oliver Stone

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

Oliver Stone

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Oleg Cassini

The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

O. Henry

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

O. Henry

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

Octavio Paz

Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.

Michael Giacchino

Adventure is out there, it’s heading our way So grab your scarf and goggles, let’s fly! I’ve mapped out our journey, we’re up here to stay. A sunset is our home. A moonbeam we will own. My Spirit of Adventure is you!

Michael Chabon

All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.

Michael Chabon

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.

Melody Beattie

Start today to follow your heart. Map out your own journey. Have the adventure of a lifetime.

Mark Consuelos

We found that our kids enjoy those simple adventures we take as a family. I'm driving, my wife's the copilot and we give one kid a choice of what they want to go do. We eat a lot of bad food and sleep in some interesting hotels.

Mark Burnett

I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before.