Adventure Quote by J.G. Farrell Download Open image ““if you were adventurous, scoop out the fragrant, heavenly, alarming flesh of the durian.”” — J.G. Farrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure
“I have an innate desire to take my senses by surprise and expose them to the naked beauty of this earth.” — Sabah Carrim Copy Share Image
“I connect with the world of flora and experience the bliss of that connection!” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“You will find very exquisite flowers sometime even on a dust-heap, as well as where humanity grows thickest and rankest.” — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
“I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures as well as… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvelous and yet not strange.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Mustering this sad, mutinous little force, I drove them before me up the Linar gorge, cursing the lot of them. It was not difficult… — Eric Newby Copy Share Image
“And then something blossomed deep within and opened almost like the multitude petals of a rose, pushing back the tension in rippling waves as… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“And may the odds -" He tosses a berry in a high arc toward me. I catch it in my mouth and break the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“And everyone would climb the stairs chuckling to their rooms and dream of aces and knaves and a supply of trumps that would last… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“For Dupigny a nation resembled a very primitive human being: this human being consisted of, simply, an appetite and some sort of mechanism for… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“For a day or two Fleury became quite active. He had his book about the advance of civilization in India to consider and this… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“What an advantage that knowledge can be stored in books! The knowledge lies there like hermetically sealed provisions waiting for the day when you… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us…but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?” — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“It is distressing to have to act under the impulsive orders of someone who, in a situation which concerns you deeply, does not know… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Surely there’s no need to abandon one’s reason simply because one is in Ireland.” — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Walter, overhearing this, frowned at Dupigny, not because he disbelieved this story, but to indicate that he should speak guardedly in front of the… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“It seems that’s there a ghastly Darwinian principle of economics known as the Law of Substitution which declares, more or less, that “the cheapest… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that the boatman who rowed King William back across the river after the Battle of the Boyne is supposed to have… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“explained that the Committee for International Understanding, with Europe crumbling about it, had closed down in 1940, naturally dismayed by the amount of misunderstanding… — J.G. Farrell 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