Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are the first, and we truly had to work for that. It's quite unusual. People are not given to adventures in our field. We've done it and we are very pleased.

Mary Pope Osborne

I would love to live in 'The Lord of the Rings.' J. R. R. Tolkien's world is so vivid and rich and sensual. I love the country setting and the routine of the hobbits. Of course, I would like to be a hobbit who goes on small adventures - not huge, horrifying ones like Frodo's quest.

Robert Rodriguez

The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D

Illeana Douglas

The Adventures of Pluto Nash, by the time it came out, it was completely different from what we had signed up for. I don't know what happened.

Earl Woods

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Adam Christopher

Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.

Chris Riddell

As a child, I copied Tenniel's illustrations from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' obsessively, particularly his drawing of the white rabbit in waistcoat and frockcoat, umbrella tucked under one arm and a fob watch in paw, a look of suppressed panic in his eye.

Jean Fritz

As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have reached an understanding, then I begin the detective work reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises, and of course, I pass them on.

People can't go climbing mountains or go on Lara Croft adventures or go down damp, dark dungeons killing monsters, ... They've got to live with what is reality -- they can't play for England at football, but through games they can. You know, it's three dimensional dreaming.

Billie Piper

Rose has had adventures and she's a lot more confident as a companion. She's on a par with the Doctor, more so than last year. She's seen some incredible things, terrifying things. This time she's more experienced as a woman, as a companion; she does everything with more conviction. There's stuff that she understands a bit more, so it's a natural progression.

Studs Terkel

And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.

This is an exciting moment as we embark upon uniting the exhilaration of a world class sporting event with what will certainly be one of the most anticipated films of next year, ... There will be plenty of high seas adventures both on screen and off for the next 10 months.

Rhianna Pratchett

Because I once became so distraught watching the film 'Watership Down,' my parents were happier to let me watch action adventures featuring humans and warriors rather than cute animals.

Jacques Villeneuve

Spa is a great track! I've got memories of some adventures there, though it's never been lucky for me. It's definitely a track where you can feel stronger than the rest if you go through the corners flat. It's one of the last high-speed circuits that we have and it's a very long lap.

Do you know how many people do more extraordinary adventures than this? There's a 15-year-old kid climbing Mt Everest.

Crispin Glover

I usually describe it as, 'Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are snails, salt, pipe and how to get home -- as tormented by a hubristic, racist inner psyche,'

It was through these adventures that we laughed, learned about life, and loved the playfulness of their every interaction.

Al Sharpton

We cannot afford to put billions of dollars into foreign adventures while we watch schools crumble in the United States.

I used to read comics all the time - escapism, ... So, it was good you get to make up your own adventures as an only child.

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Tim O'Brien

We tend to regard history as true and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' as untrue. That's always puzzled me.

Warren Spector

I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

In comics, you have to imagine what happens. I really loved it; I loved collecting. I loved following the adventures and figuring out what was going to happen next. I was a huge X-Men fan; I was a huge Spider-Man fan, and, to large degree, I remain one. It's literature for me; it's art.

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Mike Einziger

I'm really proud of her. A lot of good things are happening for her, and a lot of people are starting to pick up on her music. I'm sure we'll do more musical adventures together in the future.

Oh, there's no telling where she's been and the adventures that she's had. She's simply not talking.

Shekhar Kapur

I gave up the idea of having a career when I was 24. Sounds glamorous, but I've been doing things since then, and part of those adventures was to make films because I realised I was actually quite good at it and I enjoyed it.

Martha Wells

I do like to write about characters who aren't just starting out, who have had adventures before, who have had a past they aren't that happy looking back on.

Franz Beckenbauer

I cannot imagine that. They should earn enough money to stay away from adventures like that.

Kenneth Branagh

I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.

Malorie Blackman

In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.

Jim Murphy

I don't think many of us face the same sort of physical adventures our ancestors did, at least not on a daily basis.

John Lutz

It's been 41 years as a professional in the school business and before that it was 19 years of actually being a student, so that's quite a few years, so it's time to look ahead for some other exciting adventures in life,