Adventure Quote by Nathaniel Philbrick Download Open image “To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.” — Nathaniel Philbrick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure Mind Person Persons Psychology Something Willingly
An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“Adventure is a loose word that means different things to different people. It is a state of mind, a spirit of trying something new… — Alastair Humphreys Copy Share Image
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to… — John Amatt Copy Share Image
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility. — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“A Puritan believed it was necessary to venture back to the absolute beginning of Christianity, before the church had been corrupted by centuries of… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“No matter how much the inhabitants might try to hide it, there was a savagery about this island, a bloodlust and pride that bound… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“Living in the here and now, we are awash with sensations of the present, memories of the past, and expectations and fears for the… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“In a letter hastily written to a friend in London, Cushman saw only doom and disaster ahead. “Friend, if ever we make a plantation… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“Odd things happen in a battle, and the human heart has strange and gruesome depths and the human brain still stranger shallows;” — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“The sperm whales' network of female-based family unit resembled, to a remarkable extent, the community the whalemen had left back home on Nantucket. In… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“Melville's example demonstrates the wisdom of waiting to read the classics. Coming to a great book on your own after having accumulated essential life… — Nathaniel Philbrick 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… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
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… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
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… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share Image
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… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
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… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
