“I fear I our good dwarf has lost his taste for adventure. I managed to get word to him, thinking he might… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
But fundamentally, I don't think of it as an alien-invasion movie; everybody's here, kind of, right? So, I think it's probably more… — Lorenzo di Bonaventura Copy Share Image
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Death: It is the greatest adventure. It is stunning that in western civilization we deny it to the degree that we do.… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
Following a pre-cellphone world of children on an adventure is incredibly appealing for me. These are the kinds of movies I fell… — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“[SF] was a commercial genre born in the old adventure pulp magazines of the first third of the twentieth century, aimed primarily… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial,… — George Ellery Hale Copy Share Image
I wasn't so stupid that I didn't realize the implications of what they were saying. In my live work I was going… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to crave a shot of adventure, a taste of something new, and quite another to become immersed in the… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if… — JRR Tolkien Copy Share Image
My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible,… — Ben Saunders Copy Share Image
“Is every day an adventure with its own drive? Or an interlocked link in the chain of our life? Are we, then,… — Joan Marques Copy Share Image
“At first the buzzword was “adventure.” Then it was “a disaster movie” because the building blows up. Then it was a cop… — Brian Abrams Copy Share Image
“It was a connection that if we followed it, it might lead us down the road of the greatest adventure of our… — Micalea Smeltzer Copy Share Image
The Ploughmen is part inspired fever-dream, part adventure story, a lyric parable of not just goodand evil but of the vast and… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
“Every Adventure Has a Back Story. When we look at our past relationships, often there are one or two we may tend… — Barbara Becker Holstein Copy Share Image
“One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways… — J.Z. Colby Copy Share Image
Solitary pursuits like playing video games and skateboarding can't compete with the thrill of mobbing a teammate as he scores the winning… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, someone can enter your life and remind you just how much you’ve been missing out on. Bruno was mine once, and… — Alexis Abbott Copy Share Image
If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The most profound enchantment for the collector is the locking of individual items within a magic circle in which they are fixed… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with… — Mark McNairy Copy Share Image
“The journey you start now can take you on the adventure of a lifetime...it's up to you. Education is a life-long process.… — Carol Edwards Copy Share Image
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature:… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
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