Adventure Quote by Evelyn Waugh Download Open image “There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.” — Evelyn Waugh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure Book Books Brand new Brands Firsts New books Opening Thrilling
Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books? — William Targ Copy Share Image
It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try something new… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Beginning a new book is always a test of my expectations. The turn of a single page can lift me up or ruin me… — Kim Hotzon Copy Share Image
“One of the sad little secrets of the writing life is that it’s become like the movie business, where a movie has to “open… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
When you start off with your first book, people assume that you're like all the characters in the book - and it does complicate… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Essentially I feel like all of that pressure when you're making the first of a franchise of [movies based on] books that mean so… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Sometimes," Helena continued, "I have a terrible dream of the future. Not now, but presently, people may forget their loyalty to their kings and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few faculties of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come down your… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“It’s awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected… — Kevin McLeod Copy Share Image
“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
