Quotes of: Adventure Keyword

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

The Adventures of Sally

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all.

The Map of Lost Memories

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

I'll be a lady tomorrow

Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

If we always live in constant fear then we might miss the beauty of the moment right now, right here.

Love, Adventure and Other Noble Quests

The story of the book filled the car with exciting adventures of the sort that are fun to read about, so we didn’t have to think about the exciting adventures of the sort that are no fun to live through.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

All of life is a trust fall, and I'm awakening to the thrill, rather than the fear, of being suspended midair.

Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming

My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something ...

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