Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Mitnick

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

Kathy Ireland

I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.

Margaret Cavendish

I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me.

Mel Gibson

What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.

Meher Baba

There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.

Peter Mayle

There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

Peter McWilliams

Nothing adventured, nothing attained

Paulo Coelho

Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.

Paulo Coelho

The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort

Paulo Coelho

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?

Peter George Peterson

One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.

Pier Luigi Bersani

The next adventure is the government, a government of change.

Pico Iyer

So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

Mickey Hart

Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.

Nathaniel Philbrick

To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.

Nathaniel Branden

A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness.

Terry Pratchett

The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.

Tennessee Williams

Security is a kind of death.

Ted Allen

For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.

Randall Munroe

There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

L. Ron Hubbard

Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view.

L. Ron Hubbard

For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty, through many strata of life…

Lewis Mumford

Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour and significance. Raw experience is empty, just as empty as the forecastle of a whaler as in a chamber of a counting house; for it is not what one does, but in a manifold sense, what one realizes that keeps existence from being vain and trivial.

Leslie Charteris

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

Lee Kuan Yew

For the young, let me tell you the sky has turned brighter. There's a glorious rainbow that beckons those with the spirit of adventure. And there are rich findings at the end of the rainbow. To the young and to the not-so-old, I say, look at that horizon, follow that rainbow, go ride it.

Lady Randolph Churchill

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Kylie Minogue

I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!

Neil Peart

Adventures suck when you're having them.

Marc Maron

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

Marc Guggenheim

I'm a very big believer that the reason you've seen this huge surge in superheroes both on television and in film is...part of it of course is zeitgeist. There's no denying that there's a huge appetite on the part of the audience in both TV and film for these kind of adventures.