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.

Shana Alexander

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ...

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Solange Knowles

You get educated by traveling.

Sloane Crosley

I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.

Sinclair Lewis

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

Sinclair Lewis

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

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,

Jacqueline Novogratz

I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

Gary Snyder

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

Eugene H. Peterson

Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

Ernie Harwell

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

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.

Chuck D.

I always remain optimistic.

Christopher Walken

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Ross Perot

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.

Rush Limbaugh

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

Beth Riesgraf

It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

Gloria Gaither

God walks with us. He scoops us up in His arms or simply sits with us in silent strength until we cannot avoid the awesome recognition that yes, even now, He is there.

Greg Rusedski

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

Grace Paley

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

Michael Glos

I am optimistic that these talks won't collapse.