I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.
Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.
Reincarnation. . . makes life what it is intended to be -- a glorious adventure in which victory is absolutely sure to be ours if we persist. It proves that man [is]. . . master of his fate on his road to the stars.
I love Disneyland because the teacups are so awesome. But California Adventure is the best.
Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.
The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.
I haven't the stature to critique one of our literature's great novels, Tobias; and I'm not one of those who believe The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn needs critiquing for literary or social reasons.
If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day. . . Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.
Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.
Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie. " "Because life is an adventure, of course. " "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.
Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity and instability of meaning partly out of a sense of adventure, to see where that takes me and partly in a whistling past the graveyard kind of way because, of course, sensing stable meaning fall away can be scary.
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.
You made me happy and you made me laugh, and if I could do it all over again, I would not hesitate. Look at our life, at the trips we took, the adventures we had. As your father used to say, we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you.
Every big adventure should feel like your last. Every attempt should feel like a final charge up the hill. Tomorrow doesn't exist.
The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.
I'm only in competition with my last level.
. . . the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
I'd always felt like I was going to take part in adventures in my life. That's what led me to diving in the shipwreck to begin with. But when you're faced with your own demise, you have to accept that you are vulnerable and that you are only here for a set period of time.
Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.