The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.
I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way but for me part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.
I love making 'iCarly' - it's so much fun, and I love getting the script every week and not really knowing what insane thing I'm going to be doing. It's just like an adventure every episode; that's really fun.
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.
No coward soul is mine.
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon. --Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Every new skill you learn, every adventure you go on, every new thing you try, it only makes you a better artist.
If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth is fully known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.
What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.
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.
going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.
I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.