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.

Jim Burns

As dry as it was, I don't think it will hurt anything.

John Swenson

Once the ground gets saturated, we get slides. We're just trying to dry out and get ready for the next one.

John Brill

You take a turn and you think it's the river, and all of a sudden you're on dry land and you have to back-paddle.

Irish Proverb

We do not know the value of water until we go dry

S. E. Hinton

We just kind of go through dry spells occasionally, and we would give up a few quick points here and there. You want to get older as the season goes on, but occasionally we still show how young we are.

Steve Adelsperger

You go to the guy who's hot, and we're going to keep going to the well until it's dry. And he wasn't dry tonight.

Carol Carter

You get started on a project, and more comes up. You find lead paint or dry rot. It happens. We're not just going to throw our hands up in the middle of it.

Brian Lovejoy

The trees and plants are ready to take up some rain now. It's been so dry and the streams are also low.

Richard Hulbert

We tend to concentrate our volunteers in the two dry seasons, spring and fall. The worst things are rain-outs.

John Donaldson

We have a tradition of wetting the bairn's head, which means when you're drinking probably a glass of champagne you dip your finger in the champagne and touch the baby's head,

Ben Curtis

I blindfolded my girlfriend at night and led her into the woods, where I had a blanket, rose petals, champagne and candles. I played a song I wrote for her, and the rest of the night turned out great.