Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon B. Hinckley

Love is meant to be an adventure!!

Gordon B. Hinckley

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Herbie Hancock

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

Henry David Thoreau

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

Henry David Thoreau

Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents.

Henry David Thoreau

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

Henry David Thoreau

The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.

James Broughton

Life is adventure, not predicament.

J. R. R. Tolkien

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I'm going on an adventure!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Adventures make one late for supper.

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

Adventures only make you late for dinner.

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

Eugene H. Peterson

Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

Ernie Harwell

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

Ernest Hemingway

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.