Adventure Quotes - Page 18

• To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.

  Nathaniel Philbrick

  Mind, Persons

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• Theres no mystery-the EMU Club is a hit! This is a fun, funny adventure that kids will love to read.

  Lincoln Peirce

  Fun, Kids, Clubs

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• A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vapour, Way, Traveller

  'The Plays of William Shakespeare, with Notes' (1765) preface (Yale ed., p. 74)

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• I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

  Kate Baldwin

  Pioneers, Pioneer Spirit, Longing

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• I love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It's pure cinema and you go in and you're lost to it. To me, it's that challenge - I want to give an audience that ride, that entertainment.

  Tom Cruise

  Giving, Challenges, Cinema

  "Mission Impossible 3 - Tom Cruise interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Choose to be entrepreneur because then YOU create value. Choose to be an entrepreneur because the products, services, and jobs you create then become the lifeblood of our nation. But most of all, choose to be an entrepreneur because then you desire a life of adventure, endless challenge, and the opportunity to be your BEST SELF.

  John Gokongwei

  Jobs, Opportunity, Self

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• Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Levels, Comedy

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• For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

  Neil MacGregor

  Museums, Icons, Greek

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• I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Skills, America

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• As Razam so aptly demonstrates, a new kind of traveler is emerging-one that embarks into the mysterious and uncharted domain within, where they aim to conquer their own hearts. Written in the tradition of a great adventure narrative, Aya Awakenings is a timely story for a new emerging era.

  Yossi Ghinsberg

  Heart, Stories, Narrative

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• Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Sports, Fall

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• I don't want to play old music. To me, it is fighting battles that are already over and calling yourself a warrior. For me, I see no courage or adventure in doing the old thing over again. If others want to, that's for them. For myself, I have to move on. Life is too short to live in the past. There is a lot to be done.

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Life Is Too Short, Fighting

  Source: www.commdiginews.com

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• I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.

  Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

  School, College, Paid

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Heart, World

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1911-1912”

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• The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.

  James Joyce

  Insecure, Choices, Mind

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• Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

  Norman Cousins

  May, Energy, Spirit

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• The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.

  John Dos Passos

  Book, Creativity, Men

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• In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Ideas, Order

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Adventure is making the distant approach nearer
  but romance is having what is where it is which is not
  where you are stay where it is.

  Gertrude Stein

  Romance, Where You Are, Approach

  Gertrude Stein (1940). “What are Masterpieces”, New York : Pitman Publishing Corporation

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• What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see, what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.

  Laurence Sterne

  Eye, Heart, Hands

  Laurence Sterne (1832). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.260

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• An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Imagination, Doe

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

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• Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.

  Christopher Fowler

  Fun, Home, Epic

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• We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

  Beatrix Potter

  Home, World, Looks

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• In one way an oil boom is a mighty bad thing, because it gets into your blood and almost becomes an obsession. Booms are filled with excitement, adventure, and drama, but sometimes the exit from the scene must be made between suns on a pair of mighty weary feet.

  Sue Sanders

  Success, Business, Drama

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• What we have here is a rousing boy's adventure story, adapted from stories that Edgar Rice Burroughs cranked out for early pulp magazines. They lacked the visceral appeal of his Tarzan stories, which inspired an estimated 89 movies; amazingly, this is the first John Carter movie, but it is intended to foster a franchise and will probably succeed.

  Roger Ebert

  Boys, Firsts, Succeed

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