Adventure Quote by B.J. Novak

“History was about to intervene: real adventure, real escape and adulthood were lurking, laughing, round the corner”

— Kate Morton

“Poor old things! How many interesting events you have been tucked away from! But, on the other hand, what a lot of boring you…

— Pansy

“I have worked with that ancient, fragmented, and incomplete narrative, with its barbarians, dragons, sunken cities, reeds and memory marks, twin-bladed warrior women, child…

— Samuel R. Delany

“What is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions, is…

— Hermann Hesse

“We're about to live through history and it's incredibly exciting. But don't make the mistake of thinking life stops because of any of this.”

— Evan Mandery

“Once I've mastered the art of pretending that I don't care what other kids think of me, I start to pay attention in class,…

— Margarita Engle

“Most histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers—if they survive—are often more interesting.”

— Brian Herbert

“History is thorough, and passes through many phases when it bears an old figure to the grave. The last phase of a world historical…

— Karl Marx

“As journeys unfold, new challenges arise and pressures mount. These successive tolls must too be paid in creativity and ingenuity, as they were by…

— Sean Patrick

“Adventures may be for the adventurous, but home is where the real things are sown and reaped, where in the end the real things…

— May Sarton

“the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.”

— Victor Hugo

“Girl, we need to get you on a study program, fast. You're not going to last a week around here if you can't keep…

— Rachel Caine