Famous Quotes & Sayings

Last year, we felt like we heard the circus music after every score. It was an adventure out there because our extra-point game was very inconsistent. So it's a pleasure to be able to watch a kid go out and stick the ball through the uprights, like Jonathan does.

on-line side was a new adventure for us.

Kermit Ruffins

My home had ten feet of water and I had nine-foot ceilings. The first month was easy to keep your spirits up, because it was like, this adventure ... But now, we're over two months in and the fun's gone out of it and I just want to go home. I lost a couple of cars and the roof was gone from my house. Both of our drummers, their houses were submerged under water completely. They lost everything.

Maybe 20 years from now you'll be writing about me. And I'll be like Susan - hosting a Fresh Air Fund kid. I'd get to take the kid on whole new adventures that he or she has never been on before.

Dean Kamen

The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated with entrepreneurship is failure, and the only thing consistently associated with invention is frustration. There is a long road between the idea and the reality.

Eleanor Catton

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

Elbert Hubbard

Unleash your TRAVEL BEAST .... explore the world. It's time to begin your next adventure! No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Eduardo Chillida

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

Edward Abbey

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

Edward Abbey

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

Edward Abbey

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

Aristotle

Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

Elizabeth Edwards

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

Deepak Chopra

What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure.

Dominick Dunne

I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world.

John Stockwell

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

Tim Johnson

Peter's life was incredibly full -- full of adventure, full of learning, full of teaching, full of love.

Sharon has transformed his image from that of a headstrong adventurer into a father of the nation. Like a good wine, he has aged well.

Searching for the real Martha Washington didn't seem at first to promise much drama, romance or adventure.

Helen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

John Eldredge

Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.

Ann Hood

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

Tom Wolfe

To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq,

Virginia Woolf

If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

C. S. Lewis

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

Julian Barnes

I think he had a quite sort of ambiguous relationship to Holmes. It made him rich, it made him famous, but as often the case with these things, a writer can turn against his or her most successful creation; hence, he killed him off (in 'The Adventure of the Final Problem') and brought him back by popular request. And, of course, people did sort of confuse them and assume if he could invent these complicated mysteries, then he could also solve them.

Dean Cain

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - The Complete First Season.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

C. S. Lewis

But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.