Adventure Quotes

I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.

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

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.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

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.

Most people are on the world, not in it.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

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

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.

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

When I fly to Chile to surf or go snowboarding in Russia or some other adventure, I try to include the family when I can and go see friends along the way.

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.

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

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.

When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure.

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.

Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here.

I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!

Learning how to make your own fun and discover things on your own is something that is applicable to any job, any relationship, any trip, any adventure in life.

I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

It's an exciting adventure to give those things that you've always held onto.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.

If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.

I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.

Life is an adventure or nothing

I would never say no to anything that sounded interesting! The thing I like about making films is that the adventure just begins when you pick up the camera.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

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.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

Start today to follow your heart. Map out your own journey. Have the adventure of a lifetime.

The fascinating thing about ideals is that no sooner have we gained a desired peak than we find farther and higher peaks beyond. The thrilling adventure never ends.