My life and career is my own adventure.
~By Dario Argento ~
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
~By Charles MacArthur ~
I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.
~By Maria Bello ~
To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
~By Valentina Tereshkova ~
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
~By Dale Turner ~
And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
~By Atal Bihari Vajpayee ~
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.
~By William Bligh ~
About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.
~By Leslie Charteris ~
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
~By Peter Straub ~
Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.
~By Mike Myers ~
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
~By Steven Chu ~
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.
~By Willem Dafoe ~
I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure.
~By Don Bluth ~
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!
~By Frances Burney ~
An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
~By Norma Shearer ~
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
I like adventure.
~By Marc Garneau ~
I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
~By Roberta Williams ~
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
~By William Penn ~
Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.
~By Daniel Boone ~
It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.
~By Bernard Pivot ~
We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.
~By John Grierson ~
If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.
~By Jim Dale ~
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
~By Rebecca West ~
I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.
~By Roberta Williams ~
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
~By James D. Watson ~
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.
~By Mike Wilson ~
Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
~By Bill Frist ~
Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.
~By John M. Ford ~
To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
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.
~By Francois Truffaut ~
I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh.
~By Mark Goddard ~
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.
~By Joshua Slocum ~
The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
~By Paul Verlaine ~
My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.
~By Jim Fowler ~
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.
~By Jacqueline Cochran ~
I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested.
~By Michelle Rodriguez ~
For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.
~By Paul Kane ~
We in middle age require adventure.
~By Carolyn Heilbrun ~
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
~By Isabel Allende ~
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
~By Frank Moore Colby ~
On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia.
~By William Kunstler ~
All adventure is now reactionary.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
~By E. M. Forster ~
So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.
~By Cathy Rigby ~
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
~By John Updike ~
I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
~By Ann Beattie ~
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
Who knows, I have always lived one day at a time. Probably more adventure and excitement.
~By Rob Mariano ~
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
~By Irving Wallace ~
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
~By Bruce Sterling ~
I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.
~By Peta Wilson ~
My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.
~By Roberta Williams ~
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
~By Billy Graham ~
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.
~By Hailee Steinfeld ~
I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.
~By Tim Cahill ~
There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
~By Gary Gygax ~
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?
~By Orlando Bloom ~
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
Adventures are to the adventurous.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
~By Glenn Close ~
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
~By Henry Beston ~
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
~By Che Guevara ~
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.
~By Helen Keller ~
But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.
~By Ridley Scott ~
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
~By Nicholas Meyer ~
A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
~By Arthur Baer ~
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
~By Pat Riley ~
Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.
~By Fritz Zwicky ~
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.
~By Mink Stole ~
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
~By Norman Cousins ~
Adventure is just bad planning.
~By Roald Amundsen ~
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.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.
~By Shalom Harlow ~
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.
~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.
~By Mark Millar ~
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.
~By George Leigh Mallory ~
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
~By Anatole France ~
An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.
~By Roberta Williams ~
Death is just life's next big adventure.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.
~By Moustapha Akkad ~
The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home.
~By John Conyers ~
Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
~By William Least Heat Moon ~
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