Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Kapranos

You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem very strange to me. I think that we're very lucky that we're quite close. To us, it's almost like the band is the grandest possible adventure you can go on with your friends. It's really really exciting.

Debby Ryan

Failure is relative. Life is adventure. Everything has beauty.

E. L. Konigsburg

Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.

E. Stanley Jones

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

E. O. Wilson

That's the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that was thought to be extinct or is extremely rare, to be the first to see a nest, to discover a new species unsuspected close to your home - these are things, I think, with a little education and excitement and the right kind of natural history would actually start a movement that makes going back to nature a profitable adventure.

E. M. Forster

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

Drew Barrymore

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

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.

Dale Carnegie

This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?

E. B. White

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

Drew Houston

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Drew Houston

There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I’m almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable. Every day we’re writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that’s made all the difference. Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Douglas Coupland

Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.

Donald Trump

As long as you're going to think anyway, think big.

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.

Confucius

Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.

Dane Cook

What happens in Vegas, I'm telling everyone.

Dick Rutan

Adventure is the essence of life.

Anthony Perkins

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Alfred Bester

This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Anthony Bourdain

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

Ang Lee

I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.

Anatoli Boukreev

How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

Anatole France

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

Chuck Palahniuk

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.

Chuck Palahniuk

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and adressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. [...] The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Christopher McCandless

But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Christopher McCandless

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Christopher McCandless

...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Christopher Moore

An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.

Ansel Adams

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.