Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Center

Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Joseph Conrad

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please! Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

M. John Harrison

After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence.

Malcolm Forbes

Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don't not. In short, while alive, live.

Gail Carson Levine

Crying is part of the adventure.

Freya Stark

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Joshua Prager

We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.

Joshua Slocum

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

Kandyse McClure

I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.

Paul Kagame

The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives.

Maggie Stiefvater

My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

Hans Zimmer

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

Gore Verbinski

I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The supreme adventure is being BORN

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

John Buchan

I once played the chief part in a rather exciting business without ever once budging from London . And the joke of it was that the man who went out to look for adventure only saw a bit of the game, and I who sat in my chambers saw it all and pulled the strings. 'They also serve who only stand and wait,' you know.

M. Scott Peck

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

Maxwell Maltz

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

Maya Angelou

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.

Ashley Young

The fast lane I am flying down is one with no end in sight filled with reckless adventure and paved with dangerous delights.

Henry David Thoreau

The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet

Kathleen Hanna

I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live.

Jon Heder

It was just the adventure of creating this thing that we had hopes and dreams about. When we made 'Napoleon,' it was just that feeling of what was going to happen.

Glen Mazzara

I lot of the show's I do are low tech. This is low tech. There's a bit of high adventure here. There's difficult emotional choices. So actually this feels like a natural progression of everything I've been doing before this.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

Billie Piper

Rose has had adventures and she's a lot more confident as a companion. She's on a par with the Doctor, more so than last year. She's seen some incredible things, terrifying things. This time she's more experienced as a woman, as a companion; she does everything with more conviction. There's stuff that she understands a bit more, so it's a natural progression.