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I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
You have to have a spirit of courage and adventure, or else you're going to find it tough to get up in the morning sometimes.
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.
I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.
I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
I'm the dad, the cleanup guy. I deal with the bigger messes. But I also provide more adventures and excitement. It works out.
I had a very strong desire to carry out adventures, but in those early days I didn't actually do any. I just dreamt about it.
The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us.
Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.
If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too. I have no interest in living a balanced life. I want a life of adventure.
One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.
The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.
Exposing the world's biggest financial heist, the so-called 1MDB scandal, turned out to be an adventure in more ways than one.
I don't mind when I hit a ball in the woods. I think of it as an adventure. That's when golf really starts to get interesting.
Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.
I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.
The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings
We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.
Customers shouldn't just think of your business as a place to buy a product or use a service - it should be a fun place to be.
Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.
There's a lot of superhero stuff out there and a lot of cop stuff out there. What we have very little of anymore is adventure.
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.
I love adventure, so I'm excited to be working on something new and making the transition from reality show contestant to host.
In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.
Life would be pretty boring if I didn't explore. It's about letting my ears take me on an adventure to soak in everything I can.
I think for me the final push to move to Paris was the fact I wanted an adventure and I was slightly bored of my life in London.
God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.
Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.
There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.
Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.
I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure.
We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.
Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.
A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.
Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.
A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.
Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.