Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Blessed

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

Brian Blessed

I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.

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.

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.

Ann Hood

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.

Tom Wolfe

To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.

Studs Terkel

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

Chris Doyle

Women are one of the most important segments of the adventure travel industry. Women make the vast majority of travel decisions in families - not only the destinations, but the activities. They are the predominant adventure travel planners.

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.

Vedran Vukusic

This is probably the toughest loss we've had all year.

Van Chancellor

This is one of the most disappointing losses I've ever been in.

Brett Favre

You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.

Augustus

He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.

Jane Fonda

Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever.

Jared Diamond

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

Dan Ariely

Who would you trust right now? Which bank would you trust? Which investment would you trust? Do you really want to put your money; do you want to suffer more of these losses that we just had? You know, these volatility that we see is just unexplainable by any rational standards. Nobody has any clue about how to explain this, and nobody wants to experience that. So, we hold more money back, we don't necessarily want to invest in the market and by default, people are saving more.

Brian Weiss

More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress

Bobby Baldwin

The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

Bob Bradley

A sea of humanity. What a wonderful sight to see at the start.

Eric Hornbeck

As long as I can feel like I'm doing good, I'm going to be here. It could be tomorrow, it could be a month, I don't have those answers. However, if we can keep the search going, I will stay.

Dave Molina

Colfax will be the big one. We can make our season with a win.

Barbara Jordan

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

Carl Sandburg

The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.

Daniel Handler

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

Elizabeth Strout

Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. (211)

Bill Hybels

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.