Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Norman Cousins

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

Neil Gaiman

The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to your fellowmen. That is creative living! For you, life can be a succession of glorious adventures. Or it can be a monotonous bore. Take your choice!

Neil Gaiman

It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe...But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer.

Neil Gaiman

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Neil Gaiman

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

John Muir

Most people are on the world, not in it.

John Muir

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

Brad Goreski

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.

Dean Koontz

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

Diane Keaton

...I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.

Edgar Allan Poe

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

Victor Hugo

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

Suzanne Collins

Doors are for those who lack enemies.

Stephen King

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Michael Ende

There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some were paper-thin and others as thick as the doors of treasure houses; there was one that looked like a giant's mouth and another that had to be opened like a drawbridge, one that suggested a big ear and one that was made of gingerbread, one that was shaped like an oven door, and one that had to be unbuttoned.

Nicole Kidman

To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.

Doug Pesicka

You've got to take your hats off to Roosevelt. We had them down seven, eight, nine.

Tommy Douglas

Houdini used to pull rabbits out of a hat, but he never tried to make a living out of selling them when he had pulled them out of the hat

Rumi

Let the Beloved be a hat pulled down firmly on my head.

Philip Treacy

How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.