Adventure Quote by Margaret Mahy

“He had, for a few days, forgotten that wherever he traveled, he must take his own familiar self along, and that that self would…

— Sinclair Lewis

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life…

— Ellen Goodman

“He was already beginning to understand that what was wrong with his writing was that there was something wrong, something misconceived, about him. If…

— Salman Rushdie

The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and…

— Hal Holbrook

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner…

— Susan Sontag

“When Elon gets into something, he develops just this different level of interest in it than other people. That is what differentiates Elon from…

— Ashlee Vance

a personality devoted uniquely to its own development absorbs other lives.

— Georgette Leblanc

“After years of pretending at emotions, he'd grown to appreciate their mystery, their chaos and randomness. Sometimes they were predictable, one-dimensional, almost stupid -…

— Kim White

“It is hard to comprehend how someone who was once the center of your whole world can evolve into someone that you use to…

— Ann Koch

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Cooper had a theory about personality. Most people considered personality to be a singular identity. Malleable, sure, but essentially cohesive. But he tended to…

— Marcus Sakey