Quotes of: Adventure Keyword

Prince John: Ho, varlets, bring Sir Robin food! Such insolence must support a healthy appetite!

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Robin Hood: Men, if you're willing to fight for our people, I want you!

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adv...

The Glass Menagerie

Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec: Pterror Over Paris / The Eiffel Tower Demon

...avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.

The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.

The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

The human digestive tract is like the Amtrak line from Seattle to Los Angeles: transit time is about thirty hours, and the scenery on the last leg is pretty monotonous.

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Constipation ran Presley's life. Even his famous motto TCB— 'Taking Care of Business'— sounds like a reference to bathroom matters.

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Adventure should be part of everyone's life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.

Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World

There is something nice about a library, isn't there?" Mr. Curtis said. He nodded and took in the familiar scenery. "The scent of ink and worn, dusty pages.

The Adventures of Stanley Delacourt

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

The Adventure of the Dying Detective

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Door: No, I do mean impassible. Nothing's impossible!

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot