Adventure Quote by Ranulph Fiennes Download Open image “I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.” — Ranulph Fiennes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure Agents Bills Estate agents Estates Expeditions Goes on House Pay Reason Sells
Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes… — Ben Saunders Copy Share Image
No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the… — Ranulph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I get to be a real adventurer with my fishing work. The acting work is free, I always say I get paid for the… — Robson Green Copy Share Image
Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition. — Richard Evans Schultes Copy Share Image
If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter.… — Ranulph Fiennes Copy Share Image
It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy,… — Ranulph Fiennes Copy Share Image
People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England. — Ranulph Fiennes Copy Share Image
While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb. — Ranulph Fiennes Copy Share Image
No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the… — Ranulph Fiennes Copy Share Image
The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth — Ranulph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character. — Ranulph Fiennes Copy Share Image
As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a… — Ranulph Fiennes 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