Adventure Quote by John Matthews Download Open image ““Strange and terrible were the adventures they undertook with a merry heart”” — John Matthews ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure
“Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Often I felt that these men were play-acting: the unreality of their role was their security, even their own destinies were to them saga… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light,—sad faces… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“They were charming and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“And it must have been then, they caught him all unaware, and lured him away with haunting melodies of earth, ancient and long remembered,… — Rebecca Carson Copy Share Image
“It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.” — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“And strange were the tales of the pond in the meadow, And eager we listened with eyes opened wide To Those tales often told by poor Mary the widow, Who lived in a cottage the meadow beside. Play not, my dear boys, near the pond in the meadow, The mermaid is waiting to pull you beneath; Climb not for a… — J.R. Withers Copy Share
“There was something about Great-Uncle Merry that was like the hills, or the sea, or the sky; something ancient, but without age or end.” — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
“It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I think it's the freedom, the undisciplined energy that's within us all - exactly what you feel when you enter the wild anywhere, or… — John Matthews Copy Share Image
The wildwood is everywhere. It's inside us. It's outside us. And, of course, if you happen to be near any of the more ancient forests, not just in Europe; then, you are in touch with the source itself. But for me, it's about journeying into an inner landscape that is deeply embedded within us. We have a wild nature that… — John Matthews Copy Share
The medieval ideas of the "wild wood" was like a cupboard into which they stuffed everything they were afraid of - Wodwose, Green Men, demons, strange creatures - and of course the most fearful thing of all- wild women and their sexuality! — John Matthews Copy Share
“Texas… When their section had first been put together fifteen months back, they’d each been” — John Matthews Copy Share Image
“The way to restore the Wasteland is to embrace it with compassion, to become identified with it in exactly the same way that the… — John Matthews Copy Share Image
“Man is frail. Man is prone to fallacies, errors, vice, and greed, but good iron never fails. Combine hard iron with a good man… — John Matthews Copy Share Image
We may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within. — John Matthews Copy Share Image
“There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly… — John Matthews 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 else. And that's what I love about random words and phrases taken out of context: everyone applies their own context. If you want to apply something political or meaningful to a word I wrote on the… — Ben Eine Copy Share
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 closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
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 life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share
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 part in a range of risk-taking adventures when they were younger, and finally became wise when they reflected upon their lives in old age. There is only one problem.” “Which is?” “Risk-taking is a way to… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share
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 overcoat. Objects of this kind played a queer part in his secret life-illusion. His stick was like a plough-handle, a ship's runner, a gun, a spade, a sword, a spear. His threadbare overcoat was like a… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share
![“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 with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.” quote by Richard Branson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa1/richard-branson-256_adventure_i-ve-used-the-phoenix-centrifuge-to-repl_903.jpg)
