Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harrison Ford

I think 'Indiana Jones' was a lot of fun to do because of the places we went to and the adventures and the action. But Han Solo was also a huge part of my life.

Genevieve Padalecki

I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.

Biz Stone

I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the adventures just continue forever. They are almost like they were meant to be read out loud.

Bear Grylls

You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.

Al Sharpton

We cannot afford to put billions of dollars into foreign adventures while we watch schools crumble in the United States.

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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.

Cassandra Clare

I can't get enough adventure," Magnus said lightly. "And adventure cannot get enough of me.

Carolyn Heilbrun

We in middle age require adventure.

Ewan McGregor

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

Murray Gell-Mann

One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that... a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis... seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity, or elegance.

Mindy Kaling

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

Kathleen Hanna

I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live.

Mary MacLane

One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.

Mark Twain

Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

Nicholas Meyer

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

Muhammad Iqbal

The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.

Margrethe II of Denmark

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

Maria Bello

I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.

Imtiaz Ali

I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell

Ilka Chase

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

Gloria Steinem

It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.

H. G. Wells

Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges him for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, to risk an even a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me that there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made to go about safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. ... against his interest, against his happiness, he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him, and he must go.

H. L. Mencken

As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those who have been so fortunate as to come into the world foolish. Expressing skepticism that adventure does not necessarily contribute to scientific knowledge.

H. L. Mencken

The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. ... A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously.

H. L. Mencken

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

Jack London

But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.

I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.

Mark Gatiss

You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes,

Oswald Chambers

Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it.

Paul Auster

Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.