Adventure Quote by Karen Elizabeth Gordon

It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are…

— Murray Rothbard

Originally, Congress provided in 1793 that all foreign coins circulating in the United States be legal tender. Indeed, foreign coins have been estimated to…

— Murray Rothbard

“In a world that seems so uncertain, in lives that seem sometimes to ricochet from challenge to upheaval and back again, a dog can…

— Anna Quindlen

From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and then in…

— Paul Laffoley

But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they…

— Mary Oliver

As those who have seen Jurassic Park will know, this means a tiny disturbance in one place, can cause a major change in another.…

— Stephen Hawking

An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he…

— Anonymous

“Like I could take a nap at 4:15 p.m. and then I'll wake up twenty minutes later and have absolutely no clue where I…

— Michael Showalter

“The unhinged jaw of a nepatrox mouth—with the wide flaps to either side flapping away—greeted him through the window. The beast had climbed up…

— Jennifer Foehner Wells

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

— Lauren Oliver

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run…

— Mark Twain

I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning…

— Henry David Thoreau