Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emma Stone

I guess the cool thing about the '80s is the kind of like adventure in terms of, you know, people were very willing to use sounds that were completely ridiculous or whatever. There was a lot of stuff happening in the '80s and it's all over the place. I guess that's probably the coolest thing for me and that's what I like about it. Just kind of that like, 'Oh, what's this sound? Oh that's wacky. Let's use it anyways.'

Emilia Fox

Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. Ive never been one for going out clubbing or getting off my head, so I always gravitated to men who were similar. They just tended to be older. I think you have more of an adventure with an older man. And a happier journey.

John Jakes

Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures.

John Hodgman

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

John Eldredge

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

John Eldredge

Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.

John Eldredge

Eve is a life giver; she is Adam's ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.

John Eldredge

We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.

John Eldredge

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

John Carroll

A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

Joan Rivers

Travel is the excitement of life! Everything is an adventure, and if you look at it like that, even at the worst moment you can say: 'We will laugh tomorrow about this.' And you do.

Garry Kasparov

It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.

Francois Truffaut

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

M. John Harrison

After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence.

Malcolm Forbes

Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don't not. In short, while alive, live.

Gail Carson Levine

Crying is part of the adventure.

Freya Stark

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Maggie Stiefvater

My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

Joe Wright

I don't ever want to go backwards, I quite like it. I like the freedom and I like the - What I set out to do was to make a big action-adventure movie that ticks all the boxes in terms of audience expectations and spectacle, and yet also make a very personal film and it feels like I've gotten away with that, I've managed that.

Joaquin Miller

He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"

Ellen Potter

It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

Ellen Potter

All great adventures have moments that are really crap.

Ella Maillart

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

All of the skills we developed in corporate came to bear in this adventure.

And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.

Eddie Cibrian

I crave attention and adventure.

Henry Van Dyke

So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown. My heart will keep the courage of the quest, And hope the road’s last turn will be the best.

Henry Morton Stanley

Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

Henry Hudson

This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.

Helen Dunmore

In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.

Hans Zimmer

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.