Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Werner Erhard

For many people, life seems to be a kind of brief candle hardly worth living. But for those who are bold, who are venturesome, who have the humility to deal with what is possible rather than what is predictable, life is an exciting and challenging adventure. Life is no brief candle to me. In a world that can work for everyone, especially in which I can make a difference-that is a life worth living! That is living! That is being alive!

Werner Herzog

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

Virginia Madsen

I want every movie to be like a big family and a great adventure.

Tove Jansson

I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!

Ty Simpkins

I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons.

William Goldman

I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.

William Goldman

Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.

William Arthur Ward

The adventure of life is to learn...

Thomas Gray

Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.

Tim Cahill

Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn't know it.

Tim Cahill

For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance.

Tim Cahill

I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.

Thomas Keating

The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

Victoria Moran

Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life -- my relationships, how I relate to the world

Sam Raimi

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

Rosalind Russell

It had been an enormous, extraordinary, outrageous adventure. And it was deadly.

Roland Barthes

Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text (it is wrong to say that the notion of 'text' repeats the notion of 'literature': literature represents a finite world, the text figures the infinite of language).

Susan Cain

Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own.

Sonia Choquette

When you breathe into fear it becomes adventure

Stephen Sondheim

The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

Peter Berg

It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.

Pearl Bailey

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment.

Philip Pullman

It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, "Make this a feminist story!" I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons.

Philip Pullman

She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to him in her head, didn't relive every moment they'd been together, didn't long for his voice and his hands and his love. She had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that had astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most. She thought the tenderness it left in her heart was like a bruise that would never go away, but she would cherish it forever.

Philip Pullman

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.

Rachel Cohn

Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened.

Rabindranath Tagore

Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.