Quotes of: Adventure Keyword

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

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

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process

Only one in four has a chance at making it.... And right there, I knew that if one of us was getting off dope, and staying off dope, it was going to be . was going to live. I was the guy.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Dell had left the army and taken the discipline home with him. I’d left the theatre world and taken the whisky sodas home with me.

MYLES UNDERCOVER - four adventures for the actor turned cop

You know that person on your left shoulder who tells you that you can't do it or that you're not good enough? Tell that person to GET LOST!

Oliver Axel's Adventures: Here I Am, World!

The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.

Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas

Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?

Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46

The adventure is which I have shared so passionately is not over--this adventure with its doubt, failure, the dreariness of no progress, then a glimpse of light, a hope, a hypothesis confirmed; and then after weeks and months of anxious perseverance,...

The Woman Destroyed

God beckons me to exhilarating adventures that are without number, beyond all conceivable boundaries, and effortlessly eclipse the furthest reaches of my imagination, all while I sit languishing in stifling adventures of my own limited creation.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

Cheryl Strayed

Felicia: Do you know why this microphone has such a long cord? Man In Crowd: Why? Felicia: So it's easily retrieved after I've shoved it up your ass.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Tick: [Tick and Bernadette are discussing what it would be like to have children] What happens if they turn out like Adam? Bernadette: You stuff 'em back in and ask for a refund.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Bernadette: [to Tick about Felicia] One more push, I'm gonna to smack his face so hard he'll have to stick his toothbrush up his arse to clean his teeth!

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Felicia: [to Tick] Congratulations, Missy, my darling, you did it. One lap of the Broken Hill main drag, in drag. That'll teach you to take on the Fairmont Boys School snap champion!

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Tick: [to Felicia] You stupid bloody idiot! Drugs, for Christ's sake! Well, three cheers for you! I hope you're bloody well happy now! You bloody fuck wit!

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

[First Lines] [Tick is hit in back of head with beer can, falls] Felicia: Are you Okay?... [Felicia grabs mic] Felicia: Oh that was fucking charming, you gutless pack of dickheads.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Sir Guy of Gisbourne: What the devil? Robin Hood: Come now, Sir Guy. You would not kill a man for telling the truth, would you? Sir Guy of Gisbourne: If it amused me, yes!

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Will Scarlett: Robin, I've just got word of- [sees Friar Tuck and breaks off] Robin Hood: It's all right, he's one of us. Will Scarlett: One of us? He looks like three of us!

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Little John: You'll sweat the lard out of that fat carcass of yours before this day is over, my pudgy friend. Friar Tuck: And I hope some Norman sword whittles you down to size.

The Adventures of Robin Hood

[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result - and have been since at least the time of Odysseus - of the fatal act of leaving one's home, or trying to return to it ...

Gentlemen of the Road

Each of us, I think, adopts a comfortable and familiar era or place in which to plant ourselves; and from then on, that which disagrees with our memories -- a new building here, a change in paint there -- is forever jarring and anachronistic.

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Seventh Bullet