Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.

J. R. R. Tolkien

his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.

J. R. R. Tolkien

You aren't nearly through this adventure yet.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

Isaac Asimov

If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.

Ian Caldwell

The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.

Ian Hacking

Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.

Ian Fleming

Never say 'no' to adventures.

Homer

For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.

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.

Gary Jennings

Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things.

Gary Gygax

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

Gary Gygax

You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make their mark in the magical lands of D&D adventure. You however, are above even the greatest of these, for as DM you are to become the Shaper of the Cosmos. It is you who will give form and content to the all the universe. You will breathe life into the stillness, giving meaning and purpose to all the actions which are to follow.

Sarah Hall

I can say its been an adventure so far. Weve learned a lot and met some wonderful people and made some great contacts.

Franz Beckenbauer

I cannot imagine that. They should earn enough money to stay away from adventures like that.

Kenneth Branagh

I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.

I am on a voyage of discovery. I search for those of you who will go on a great adventure . . . if you are one of those audacious few willing to dare and then to share . . . then come with me.

Martha Wells

I do like to write about characters who aren't just starting out, who have had adventures before, who have had a past they aren't that happy looking back on.

Hunter S. Thompson

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

Hulk Hogan

I'd like to be the John Wayne of the '90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.

He is very idealistic. He has many convictions. He is very pro-democracy, very compassionate, always helping out others, he's very driven. Those are more characteristics of Farris than adventurous. This is the first adventure he's been on.