Famous Quotes & Sayings

The island is a one-stop shop for wilderness and outdoor adventure. You can get your feet dirty by day and be pampered at night.

Neale Donald Walsch

I tell you this: There is no coincidence, and nothing happens "by accident." Each event and adventure is called to your Self by your Self in order that you might create and experience Who You Really Are.

Jacob Bronowski

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Louise Erdrich

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

James Joyce

The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.

James Salter

Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing patches of stratus that lay in the valleys as heavy and white as glaciers. North for the first time. It was still an adventure, as exciting as love, as frightening.

Laurence Sterne

Chance is the providence of adventurers.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in the power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.

George Friedman

Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

Jon M. Chu

I love the adventure of telling all types of stories and trying to conquer each one.

Jon M. Chu

I always loved action adventure. It is something I always wanted to do.

Lynn Johnston

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life

M. Scott Peck

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

Karl Albrecht

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Norman Rockwell

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

Orlando Bloom

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

Orlando Bloom

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it

Oliver Stone

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Oleg Cassini

The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

O. Henry

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

Emily Dickinson

Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear.

It's been an adventure. That's the best way to put it. Never once have we had our best lineup. It's like we've been haunted all year.

It's inconvenient, no question. But it's also an adventure.

It's inconvenient, no question about it, but it's also an adventure.

Julia Sawalha

I want to be in 'The Hobbit.' I love fantasy and mythical adventure films. I believe in fairies and angels. I believe in nature's spirit, that there are other realms, other planets, life forms.

The world is becoming a smaller place every day with mobile phones and airlines, so it's an exciting new adventure

Jon Heder

It was just the adventure of creating this thing that we had hopes and dreams about. When we made 'Napoleon,' it was just that feeling of what was going to happen.

James Gleick

Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.

Nev Schulman

Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.

Joey King

I love Disneyland because the teacups are so awesome. But California Adventure is the best.

John Grierson

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

John Green

And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.

Cassandra Clare

I have very few rules in life, but one of them is to never decline an adventure. The others are: to avoid becoming romantically entangled with sea creatures; to always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity; to demand ready money up front; and to never play cards with Catarina Loss.