Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Laurence Sterne

Chance is the providence of adventurers.

Laurence Sterne

Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.

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.

Jon Ronson

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

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

John Buchan

I once played the chief part in a rather exciting business without ever once budging from London . And the joke of it was that the man who went out to look for adventure only saw a bit of the game, and I who sat in my chambers saw it all and pulled the strings. 'They also serve who only stand and wait,' you know.

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.

Emmet Fox

When you are in difficulties, look upon the overcoming of them as a great adventure.

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

Oriana Fallaci

Journalism combines adventure with culture.

Oliver Stone

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

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

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

O. Henry

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

Octavio Paz

Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.

Norman Vincent Peale

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

Emile Hirsch

I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

Emile Hirsch

The traveling and adventure always lift my spirits soaring with exhilaration.

Emily Bronte

No coward soul is mine.

Emily Dickinson

Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear.

Chip Taylor

Nothing like this has been done. It's really a marvelous adventure and one that very few people would even think about as a possibility because it is risky.

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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 been an adventure. But really, it's an opportunity for us to be surrounded by all kinds and styles of entertainment. We're a group of creative people in an environment of creativity, which inspires us to create even more.