"Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called……" — Laura Miller
"Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books."
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39 Quotes by Laura Miller
Laura Miller has 39 quotes on this site.
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Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.
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Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who…
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Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.
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The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall…
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Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.
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If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's…
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There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.
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The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art…
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Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in…
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It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach,…
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The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.
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Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning…
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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