It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
~By Frederick Sanger ~
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 ~
I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.
~By Tim Cahill ~
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
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 ~
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 good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
~By Anatole France ~
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.
~By Henry Hudson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Death is just life's next big adventure.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
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 ~
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.
~By Peter Berg ~
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 ~
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 ~
My next adventure will be being in a car with Mischa at the wheel.
~By Rachel Bilson ~
There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
~By Gary Gygax ~
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
~By William Feather ~
If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."
~By Joe Bob Briggs ~
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 ~
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
Music should always be an adventure.
~By Coleman Hawkins ~
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 ~
Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.
~By Melissa Auf der Maur ~
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
~By James M. Barrie ~
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
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 ~
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 ~
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
~By William Penn ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.
~By William Bligh ~
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 ~
To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.
~By John Grierson ~
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 ~
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 ~
I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
~By Roberta Williams ~
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 ~
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 ~
About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.
~By Leslie Charteris ~
Adventure is just bad planning.
~By Roald Amundsen ~
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 ~
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
~By Norman Cousins ~
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 ~
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
~By Heywood Broun ~
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
~By Lloyd Alexander ~
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 ~
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
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 ~
We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.
~By Lucy Lawless ~
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 ~
Adventure is worthwhile.
~By Aesop ~
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 ~
It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.
~By Bernard Pivot ~
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 ~
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 want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.
~By Maria Bello ~
What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
~By Roberto Assagioli ~
The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
~By Paul Verlaine ~
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 ~
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 ~
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
Who knows, I have always lived one day at a time. Probably more adventure and excitement.
~By Rob Mariano ~
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 ~
Nothing adventured, nothing attained.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
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 ~
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 ~
We in middle age require adventure.
~By Carolyn Heilbrun ~
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 ~
A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
~By Arthur Baer ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Marc Maron ~
I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.
~By Roberta Williams ~
Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
~By Louis Bonaparte ~
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 ~
Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.
~By James J. Hill ~
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 ~
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 ~
All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
~By Sally Ride ~
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
~By Anthony Perkins ~
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 process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
~By Adam Smith ~
We love because it's the only true adventure.
~By Nikki Giovanni ~
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 ~
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
~By Ovid ~
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