Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Marie Stopes

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

Theodore Roosevelt

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Thelonious Monk

Jazz is my adventure.

Margaret Mitchell

There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.

Ashley Olsen

I had a great time recording the series. Because it's animated the adventures are endless. We could experience things and places that otherwise would be impossible in live-action shows.

Jonny Gomes

I had good grades in school, ... I was an outdoorsman. I like the adventure and representing your country. I don't want to go to war, but I wouldn't have been scared.

I'm just extremely relieved for him it's over. But it's not really over, it's just the start of another adventure.

Neal Stephenson

Give me an adventure. I'm not talking about some massive adventure. Just something that would make getting fired seem small. Something that I might remember when I'm old." "I can't predict the future," I said, "but based on what little I know so far, I'm afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing." "Great!" "Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial.

Neale Donald Walsch

I tell you this: There is no coincidence, and nothing happens "by accident." Each event and adventure is called to your Self by your Self in order that you might create and experience Who You Really Are.

Laura Miller

Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.

Lance Henriksen

I stay subjective because that's what I do. That's one of my abilities. I don't need to watch it because I've had the adventure. I don't do low-budget acting. I do the same acting, whether I'm in a Jim Cameron or not. I always try to do good work. There's no snobbery in there

John Travolta

The only thing I ran into is that I am a wanderlust, as far as travel and adventure. I will go off on any given moment with the family and friends to explore the world. I go around the world once a year. I go to Africa, you know, Russia, wherever... I love it.

John Updike

You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...

John Taylor Gatto

We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don't do that.

John Taylor Gatto

You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!

James J. Hill

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

James Joyce

The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.

James Joyce

The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.

James Salter

Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing patches of stratus that lay in the valleys as heavy and white as glaciers. North for the first time. It was still an adventure, as exciting as love, as frightening.

Laurence Sterne

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Laurence Sterne

Chance is the providence of adventurers.

Laurence Sterne

Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in the power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.

Louise Erdrich

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

Anatole France

A good critic is one who narrates the adventures of his mind among masterpieces.

Jacques Ellul

The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct.

Henry A. Wallace

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

Helen Hunt

I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.