Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Eno

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Donald Miller

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Socrates

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

Socrates

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

Socrates

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Norma Shearer

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

Noel Coward

But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?

Mitch Albom

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

Studs Terkel

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

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.

James Cameron

With ‘Avatar,’ I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys’ adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mold, like John Carter of Mars—a soldier goes to Mars,

Chris Pratt

Film is cool because it's an hour and a half to two hours. It's a great ride. It's typically three acts - beginning, middle and end. It's going on an adventure and by the end it's all cleaned up.

Helen Keller

Life is an adventure or nothing

Erica Jong

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

Emma Caulfield

There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty and charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. So many people seem to go about their life's business with their eyes shut. Indeed, they object to other people keeping their eyes open. Unable to play themselves, they dislike the play of others.

Guy Laliberte

We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us.

Brigitte Bardot

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

Elie Wiesel

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

Edward Abbey

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Donald Cargill

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

Anthony de Mello

No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

Anthony de Mello

To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, "You may live with me, but don't become my follower." "Whom, then, shall I follow?" "No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth .

Anthony de Mello

May the peace of God disturb you always.

Anna Faris

Instead of the mahi mahi, may I just get the one mahi because I’m not that hungry.