Adventure Quotes

1845 Adventure quotes by 1200 unique authors

Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out of my cloak… — Cyrano de Bergerac
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to him in her… — Philip Pullman
For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a… — Rebecca Solnit
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off… — Vera Nazarian
I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As… — Martin Buber
I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they… — Robin Wasserman
There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something,… — Ken Blanchard
But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our… — Kurt Vonnegut
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to… — Simone de Beauvoir
Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when… — Sherwood Anderson
There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn. — Gordon B. Hinckley
You're never too young to die. — Anthony Horowitz
Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or… — Neil Gaiman
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left… — Patrick Rothfuss
One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books. — John Muir
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could… — Sylvia Plath
I drank lots of water and orange juice and took a multivitamin and iron supplement for breakfast, which was my regimen since Bill had come… — Charlaine Harris
Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and… — Joanna Russ
Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive. — Mercedes Lackey
Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection. — Kij Johnson
All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey,… — Michael Chabon
I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed,… — Kim Stanley Robinson
...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make… — D.E. Stevenson
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against… — Jack London
[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels… — Robin McKinley

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