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Adventure Quotes

"An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful."

Roberta Williams, American Designer

Adventure, Nothing

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"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."

Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Novelist

Adventure, Boats, Nothing, Worth

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"Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it."

Melissa Auf der Maur, Canadian Musician

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"There is no certainty; there is only adventure."

Roberto Assagioli, Italian Psychologist

Adventure, Certainty

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"Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms."

John M. Ford, American Writer

Adventure, Culture, Intention

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"Explore new adventures."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Adventure, Explore, Adventures, New, Life

"I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure."

Nigel Kennedy, English Musician

Adventure, Want

"Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested."

Michelle Rodriguez, American Actress

Adventure, Woman

"I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure."

Shalom Harlow, Canadian Model

"Dare to take chances. Dare to take the path less traveled. You may never know where the path may lead you."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Adventure, Dare, Take, Path, Less

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."

Edward Abbey, American Author

Adventure, Clouds, Leading, May, Mountains

"A journey into the celestial cosmos!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Adventure, Journey, Celestial, Cosmos, Space

"The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been."

George F. Kennan, American Historian

Adventure, Lonely, Pleasure, Will

"Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested."

Richard Branson, British Businessman

Adventure, Balloons, Being, First, Flying

"It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original."

Bernard Pivot, French Journalist

"In every voyage, be fully present."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Adventure, Voyage, Present, Moment, Life

"There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t."

William Trogdon, American Author

"No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight."

Priscilla Presley, American Actress

Adventure, Woman

"Life is a long travel. The end of the journey is often unpredictable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Adventure, Travel, Long, Journey, End

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

James M. Barrie, British Playwright

Adventure, Will

"All adventure is now reactionary."

William F. Buckley, Jr., American Journalist

Adventure, Now, William F. Buckley

"The poet is a madman lost in adventure."

Paul Verlaine, French Poet

"Adventures of Lailah Gifty Akita, the wonder woman!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Adventure, Lailah, Wonder, Woman

"I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance."

Bob Black, American Activist

"You are always on the verge of an adventure so dare to find it with true joy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Adventure, Joy, Find, True

"Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure."

Irving Wallace, American Author

Adventure, Excitement, Man, World

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."

George Eliot, British Author

"To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face."

George Grey, New Zealander Leader

Adventure, Flies, Sleep, Newzealander

"On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves."

Joshua Slocum, Canadian Explorer

Adventure, Day, Sea, Wind

"The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it."

Mink Stole, American Actress

Adventure, Chance, Hurt

"My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore."

Roberta Williams, American Designer

Adventure, Obstacles

"The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back."

Norman Rockwell, American Artist

Adventure, Artists, Living, Painting

"If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea."

Joshua Slocum, Canadian Explorer

Adventure, May, Sea

"I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers."

Anatoli Boukreev, Russian Athlete

Adventure, Order

"Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing."

Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Novelist

Adventure, Discontent, Earth, Longing, Spirit

"Don't seek security; seek adventure. It is uncertainty that makes life worth living."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Adventure, Courage

"Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century."

Alan Dean Foster, American Author

Adventure, Time, Travel, World, Writing

"When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest."

Oliver Kahn, German Athlete

Adventure, Fancy

"Be bold and fly toward the unknown. Discover a road that was never known."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Adventure, Bold, Unknown, Discovery

"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."

Adam Smith, Scottish Economist

Adventure, Certainty

"Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel."

Carl Clinton Van Doren, American Critic

Adventure, Service, Word

"Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have."

Jon Voight, American Actor

Adventure, Danger, Democracy, Risk

"My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few."

Terry Brooks, American Writer

Adventure, Name, Writers

"Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result."

Jacqueline Bisset, English Actress

Adventure, Film, Result

"We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand."

Jennie Churchill, American Celebrity

Adventure, Extravagance

"Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Adventure, Adventures, Read, Learn, Travel

"The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles."

Bill Bowerman, American Coach

Adventure, Magic, Man

"Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

"The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary."

Robert Falcon Scott, British Explorer

Adventure, Day, Effort, Events, Forget

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