Adventures Quotes
354 Adventures quotes by 289 unique authors
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Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that…
— Gregory Maguire
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While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead,…
— Jack Vance
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The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed…
— Brendon Burchard
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There are some adventures not worth having.
— Michael Scott
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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.…
— Mark Twain
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Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when…
— James M. Barrie
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I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?" "Because…
— Jodi Picoult
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A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write…
— Tove Jansson
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The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available…
— Joseph Campbell
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And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly.
— Paulo Coelho
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be…
— James Joyce
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How was your night?" I asked, my voice carefully neutral as I attempted to break the ice. My spying adventures still hung uncomfortably between us.…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America…
— Tennessee Williams
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We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the…
— Richard Louv
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Adventures only make you late for dinner.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Who Wrote These Adventures Quotes
289 authors contributed a total of 354 Adventures Quotes, led by these top contributors: