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 ~
It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
~By John Phillips ~
Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.
~By Mink Stole ~
It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.
~By Erich von Stroheim ~
Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.
~By Harry Golden ~
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Death is just life's next big adventure.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure.
~By Sinbad ~
In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.
~By Roger Staubach ~
To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
~By Roberta Williams ~
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 ~
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
~By Rebecca West ~
I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.
~By Frank Oz ~
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
~By Harry Callahan ~
The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.
~By Roberta Williams ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
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 get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
~By Harrison Ford ~
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
~By Steven Chu ~
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 ~
My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.
~By Roberta Williams ~
I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.
~By Bob Black ~
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
~By Marie Carmichael Stopes ~
It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
~By Jackie Weaver ~
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 ~
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
~By Atal Bihari Vajpayee ~
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 ~
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
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.
~By Leslie Charteris ~
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 ~
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 ~
Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
~By Fred Allen ~
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
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 ~
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
~By Nicholas Meyer ~
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
~By Lloyd Alexander ~
I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.
~By Roberta Williams ~
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.
~By Rick Wakeman ~
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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 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 ~
Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.
~By Melissa Auf der Maur ~
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
~By Jennie Churchill ~
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 ~
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
~By Andre Gide ~
Adventure is just bad planning.
~By Roald Amundsen ~
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 ~
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
~By Robertson Davies ~
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
~By Ovid ~
The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
~By Alan Cranston ~
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 ~
It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.
~By Peter Berg ~
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 ~
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
~By William Penn ~
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
~By Ella Maillart ~
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 ~
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 ~
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.
~By Steve Fossett ~
Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.
~By Ernest Lawrence ~
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~By Edwin Powell Hubble ~
I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.
~By Shalom Harlow ~
This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.
~By Henry Hudson ~
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.
~By Paul D. Boyer ~
We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.
~By John Grierson ~
I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.
~By Nigel Kennedy ~
I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.
~By Catherine Bell ~
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 ~
I sold my first script when I was 21 - this kids' adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I'm pretty psyched about it.
~By Jason Segel ~
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.
~By Graham Nelson ~
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
I like adventure.
~By Marc Garneau ~
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 ~
Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.
~By Tom Cochrane ~
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 ~
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
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 ~
All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
~By Sally Ride ~
Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
~By William Least Heat Moon ~
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