Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Auster

Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.

Laurence J. Peter

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

Muhammad Iqbal

The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.

Margrethe II of Denmark

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

Maria Bello

I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.

Ned Rorem

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.

Neil Armstrong

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Priscilla Presley

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

Neil MacGregor

For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

Rachel McAdams

I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.

Nev Schulman

Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.

Mike Myers

Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.

Joey King

I love Disneyland because the teacups are so awesome. But California Adventure is the best.

Joey Ramone

I've done a lot of living and a lot of adventuring and I think that's very healthy, ya know. And I think everybody should adventure life 'cos that's what life is, it's for adventuring. You gotta know what you wanna do with your life. And you gotta know when you have something special and you don't wanna blow it.

Joey Ramone

Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything.

John Grierson

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

John Grisham

A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.

Kathy Griffin

Life is adventure. Travel is adventure at a different address.

Keanu Reeves

But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

Kristen Stewart

I like women who have an opinion one way or the other or who have a great sense of humor and a great sense of adventure. I can be friends with women who are not like that, but I don't have that hard emotional connection.

Oliver Goldsmith

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

Marc Almond

I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.

Kid Cudi

I just wanna go on more adventures. Be around good energy. Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow

Kevin Mitnick

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

Kathy Ireland

I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.

Margaret Cavendish

I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.

P. J. O'Rourke

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

Paul Buchheit

Part of the excitement was just seeing how the world would respond. I kind of like uncertainty to some extent, because it's a little bit of suspense and excitement and adventure, almost, right? And you can learn a lot even if things don't work out. But not everyone likes adventure. A lot of people seem to be against uncertainty, actually. In all areas of life.

Patti Hansen

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.

Oscar Wilde

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.