Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Hurick

As far as kids' influence, they're already influenced a lot more by their parents and what they see on TV than what they'll ever see at Adventure Park.

David English

The Bunbury Festival has been like a conveyor belt for England cricketers - and is the start of the production line. The minute we meet - on the first day of the Bunbury Festival, they get the speech and a handshake, and their Bunbury adventure starts. They become Bunburys for life.

Alex Lowe

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Ray Davies

('Other People's Lives') is my first attempt to make a studio album that's got original songs on it, and it's a completely new adventure for me.

Martha Stewart

I've always felt that life should be an adventure, that every day should be important ... There can be no doubt that the last three years have certainly been an adventure for me and for all of you. Though it was stressful -- very stressful -- I can say that I don't regret everything.

Peter Diamandis

Adventure travel is the fastest growing segment of the leisure travel business. And these X-Prize vehicles are basically the first step for future space-seeking adventure travelers,

Rick Schlesinger

Adventure travel is an exercise in discovery. Everyone's got their own adventure quotient, from casual bird watching to hiking the Sierras.

Chris Stiepock

Adventure racing has no place in the X Games. ... The demographic of the athletes and viewers is a little older than that of the skateboarding, BMX and freestyle motocross.

David Gayson

Adventure is not outside a man; it is within

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Mitch Kapor

A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

Andrew Brunette

As players, I don't think that's any of our business. There's nothing we can do about it. This is between Marian and the Wild organization. It's not between any of the players. We basically come to play and we still have a job to do. The season is not going to stop. We have a job to do and we can't worry about his situation. That's something that he believes in and he's making a stand for it.

Gene Luen Yang

As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.

Eric Benker

That's where the mentors come in. We make a commitment for at least one year to meet with a specific student weekly. We shoot hoops, play board games, help out a little bit with homework if needed basically we become a friend.

Ed Garcia

Rain not only produces all this water, it causes people to close their doors and lock their windows. That basically locks in the humidity.

Dennis Gartman

People who have been with me for 20 years know that when I say watershed that means a major shift. I've been a dollar bull for a long period of time, have basically been neutral for the past several months and am now turning to becoming a dollar bear. This move through $1.22 is definitive.

Stacy Pak

Our sense is that the holiday season has not been particularly good so far, that this past weekend's sales were less than spectacular and a New York City transit strike was basically the last thing the retail sector needed.

Tim Hatten

Demetrius is probably the fastest guy to ever play here and that's saying a lot.

Anthony Hopkins

The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role.

Atul Chand

This will perhaps be the fastest transition from ramp to store.

Ryan Long

To do what he did in the mile and then come back and run the fastest leg on that relay (was very impressive).

Frank Spindler

We are introducing ... 12 new processors for every mobile PC segment, including the fastest processor.

Michigan State

On the field, he's the fastest kid I've seen in person. I wish I hadn't seen him in person.

Todd Bodine

I'm a little surprised. I was struggling earlier. It's hard not to make a mistake. I was hoping to at least back up my time from the first run, but we'll take it. We're here for fun, but if we're not the fastest we're mad.

Don Powell

He's got wheels. He's one of the fastest kids I've ever coached. He has great puck-handling skills. He's a horse; you don't ever see kids like him. He has a tremendous slap shot.

Susan Walvius

She may be the fastest guard in the country. She's super quick and super fast.

Douglas Coupland

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Virgil

Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

Baltasar Gracian

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

Edgar Mitchell

Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

Aristotle

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

David J. C. MacKay

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

Sid Ryan

Every day that they put this legislation off to the future is more time to negotiate.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

Sarah Gellar

As a teen-ager growing up there weren't things to watch,

Jake Sinclair

As a kid growing up you watch those teams. Then you're there and think ?wow, this is amazing.' But then you have to go out there and play.

Greg Robinson

As a kid growing up (watching) Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Larry Csonka and all the rest, you always knew about those guys,

Hu Jintao

A sound and steadily growing China-US relationship not only serves the interests of our two peoples, but also contributes to peace, stability and development in the world,

Charli Turner

Reagan is really growing as a leader. I'm really proud of her.

Ian Robertson

Raymarine has a defendable, leading market position in the growing marine leisure electronics market.

Casey Mears

Racing-wise I hate to see it go, but this sport is growing and changing. You've got to move with the times and do what's going to help the sport grow.

Zig Ziglar

Real love is a growing and development process that involves every emotion, problem, joy and triumph known to man.

Michael Klare

The supply of oil has been growing all these years in approximate consonance with demand.

Ben Goldacre

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity,

Aristotle

The first principle of all action is leisure.

Steve Earle

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

Sutton Foster

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.

Mortimer Adler

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Peter Drucker

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

Winston Churchill

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Deion Sanders

The thrill is gone. It's time for me to step away.

Mahmoud Abbas

The most important step after the withdrawal will be how we protect, rebuild.

Mickael Pietrus

It was tough for us tonight and we're really going to try to step up on Wednesday and try to get a W before the break. It's very important to get a win on Wednesday.

Bill Worsham

This is a really significant and unexpected step in our development.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Janet Napolitano

This is a step in the right direction, but we really need more resources.

Richard Hasen

This could be an important first step toward undermining (the 2003 ruling) without overruling it.

Tom Blake

That's where your upperclassmen and tri-captains step up. That's what they're supposed to do.

Juvenal

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Alain de Botton

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

Jane Austen

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Diane Ackerman

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

Brian Eno

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

Robert H. Connelly

This website is not your usual read-some-copy, look-at-some-pictures travel site,

e. e. cummings

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

E. M. Forster

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

E. M. Forster

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.