Famous Quotes & Sayings

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq,

on-line side was a new adventure for us.

Lorrie Moore

Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.

We are honored to be associated with the world's premier SUV-maker. We, like Land Rover, believe in celebrating the spirit of adventure in everyone; that is truly what Muddy Buddy is all about.

Jane Smiley

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

J. J. Johnson

There are multitudes whose life is nothing but a continuous lottery; who are always within a few months of plenty and happiness, and how often soever they are mocked with blanks, expect a prize from the next adventure

I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.

I looked like Robin Hood going through the 18, ... an adventure in itself.

Kermit Ruffins

My home had ten feet of water and I had nine-foot ceilings. The first month was easy to keep your spirits up, because it was like, this adventure ... But now, we're over two months in and the fun's gone out of it and I just want to go home. I lost a couple of cars and the roof was gone from my house. Both of our drummers, their houses were submerged under water completely. They lost everything.

Maybe 20 years from now you'll be writing about me. And I'll be like Susan - hosting a Fresh Air Fund kid. I'd get to take the kid on whole new adventures that he or she has never been on before.

Doug Macdonald

Getting used to that is going to be an adventure for me, and maybe it will make me a better transportation secretary because all of us need transportation too.

William White

From 40 to 60 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership. He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

If adventure does not wait on the doorstep, climb out through the window

Olivier Theyskens

I find him very enlightening. If there is something inspiring you -- if it's an adventure with H&M -- you have to do it. You must not hold back.

C. S. Lewis

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

Burt Reynolds

Friends come in herds and they leave in herds. Hollywood loves an adventure, but you have to hit bottom. Then they love to save you and be a part of it. Or think they're a part of it.

Alan Cranston

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.

Eckhart Tolle

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

Elie Wiesel

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

Harrison Ford

I think 'Indiana Jones' was a lot of fun to do because of the places we went to and the adventures and the action. But Han Solo was also a huge part of my life.

Genevieve Padalecki

I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.

Alastair Humphreys

See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way.

Alastair Humphreys

Adventure is just about doing something you’ve never done— doing it with enthusiasm and curiosity: doing something difficult with passion.

Albert Camus

The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.

Amelia Earhart

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

D. J. MacHale

And so we go.' It's my way of saying that I'm prepared for the next adventure. The next chapter. The next challenge. Whatever comes my way, I'm ready for it. Because that truly is the way it was meant to be...

D. J. MacHale

My life is an ongoing, ever changing adventure.

D. H. Lawrence

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

Daniel Defoe

It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road.

Dan Chaon

There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.

Dylan Thomas

...And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. - I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the the vine of days...

Donna Shalala

I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.