Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

Reinhold Messner

Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.

Reinhold Messner

I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.

Rebecca Solnit

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

Rick Steves

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

Rick Wakeman

My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

Trenton Lee Stewart

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big 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.

Hans Zimmer

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

Kandyse McClure

I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.

Willem Dafoe

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

Willem Dafoe

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

Warren Miller

Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.

Wole Soyinka

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

Zaha Hadid

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

Yvon Chouinard

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

Yvon Chouinard

True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.

Yvon Chouinard

The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

Yvon Chouinard

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

Zac Efron

I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'

Sara Sheridan

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

Sara Sheridan

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

Sara Sheridan

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

Samuel Ullman

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Samuel Johnson

A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.

William Henry Harrison

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Walter de La Mare

Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery.

Walter Bagehot

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

William Bligh

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

Werner Erhard

For many people, life seems to be a kind of brief candle hardly worth living. But for those who are bold, who are venturesome, who have the humility to deal with what is possible rather than what is predictable, life is an exciting and challenging adventure. Life is no brief candle to me. In a world that can work for everyone, especially in which I can make a difference-that is a life worth living! That is living! That is being alive!