"Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales……" — Audrey Niffenegger
"Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window."
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124 Quotes by Audrey Niffenegger
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I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
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There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of…
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Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to…
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Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.
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The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid…
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We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away:…
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I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry…
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CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.
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How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have…
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But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
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Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the…
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It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.
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More Adventure Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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