"Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie……" — Kate Atkinson
"Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course."
—
Kate Atkinson
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
49 Quotes by Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson has 49 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right…
-
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
-
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely…
-
They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and…
-
Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics…
-
Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.
-
Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some…
-
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
-
I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
-
In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.
-
Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a…
-
I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends.…
See all 49 quotes by Kate Atkinson »
More Adventure Quotes
This quote is filed under Adventure Quotes,
one of 1,845 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
-
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
-
All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
-
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
-
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
-
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
-
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
-
I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
-
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
-
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
-
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
-
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
See all 1,845 Adventure Quotes »