Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roseanne Barr

The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

Rogers Hornsby

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

Roger Ebert

What we have here is a rousing boy's adventure story, adapted from stories that Edgar Rice Burroughs cranked out for early pulp magazines. They lacked the visceral appeal of his Tarzan stories, which inspired an estimated 89 movies; amazingly, this is the first John Carter movie, but it is intended to foster a franchise and will probably succeed.

Robin McKinley

Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.

Roberto Assagioli

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

Roberta Williams

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

Roberta Williams

I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.

Roberta Williams

My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.

William Faulkner

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

Willem Dafoe

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

Willem Dafoe

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

Warren Miller

Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.

Warren G. Bennis

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

Said Nursi

If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.

Saint Augustine

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

Saint Augustine

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

Witold Gombrowicz

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

Wole Soyinka

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

Wim Wenders

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Will Rogers

Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.

Will Rogers

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

Always take an extra quarter to the laundry room.

They aren't kidding when they say, "Wash Whites separately.

Wes Walz

It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails.

Wes Moore

The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.

Zubin Mehta

Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.

Zaha Hadid

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

Yvon Chouinard

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

Yvon Chouinard

True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.

Yvon Chouinard

The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

Yvon Chouinard

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

Zac Efron

I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'

Yul Brynner

Whatever you do, don't smoke.