Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angelina Jolie

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Anne Tyler

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

Anna Katharine Green

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

Angela Cartwright

Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.

Angela Kinsey

I'm sure, to many people, my life is not that exciting, but to me every day is an adventure.

Andrew Sullivan

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

Andre Maurois

Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.

Anthony Horowitz

You're never too young to die.

Alice Walker

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

Wine is an art and a science at the same time. That's why there's a mystique about it - and why a little grape can still hold so much adventure for our family.

Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was this motive, so unfrocked with anything that his worst enemies could find, except the mildest and most excusable, a personal vanity, practically the minimum to be human, that in a sense his adventure is that of humanity itself. In Wilson, the whole of mankind breaks camp, sets out from home and wrestles with the universe and its gods.

We feel great. We're done. We are a little bit sad that a great adventure is over. It was a fantastic adventure.

Mike Rogers

we're always looking for adventure, but this is probably a little more than we would normally look for.

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.

Stephen Colletti

My costar James Lafferty, and his little brother Stuart Lafferty, and another buddy of ours, Ian Shive, are working on this project called 'Generation Wild.' It's about getting people to realize that being outdoors is not scary - you can go on adventures like we do, in national parks, and practically in your own backyard.

Richard G. Scott

Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges, and burdens. We are immersed in a sea of persistent, worldly pressures that could destroy our happiness. Yet these very forces, if squarely faced, provide opportunity for tremendous personal growth and development. The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

Boris Pasternak

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Bruce Feiler

May your first word be adventure and last word love.

Bruce Feiler

I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

Brendon Burchard

Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure , and meaning. The safe harbor is not for me, not for long. Let the fearful stand at the shore and point as we head into the unknown, toward that vast horizon where the bold become legend.

Brendon Burchard

The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed to be, lived as we thought we were supposed to live. Then the safety and comfort and compromise get to us, and a stirring of restlessness and revolution sends us off in search of greater adventures and meaning. From THE CHARGE

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.

Beatrice Wood

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

Beatrix Potter

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

Bear Grylls

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

Bear Grylls

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

Bear Grylls

Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly

Audrey Tautou

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive to the entire electromagnetic spectrum - we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science.