Adventurous Quotes

• Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Way
  • New
  • Theory

• To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

  

  Aristotle
  • Person
  • Insanity
  • Adventurous

• I like squirrels. They're so adventurous.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Like
  • Adventurous
  • Squirrels

• It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Woman
  • Fortune
  • Cautious

• We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never may expect to be respected as men and women, until we have undertaken some fearless, bold, and adventurous deeds of daring . . .

  

  Martin Delany
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.

  

  Robert Wilson Lynd
  • Children
  • Universe
  • Jumping

• Life was a lot more adventurous before caller I.D.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Life
  • Adventurous

• Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Pocket
  • Adventurous

• I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Apologize

• I'm becoming more adventurous.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • More
  • Becoming
  • Adventurous

• Sometimes you've just got to grab an apple - or grapes, or strawberries. Something that's healthy but maybe a little bit more adventurous, if you can see fruit as adventurous.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Sometimes
  • Healthy
  • Fruit

• I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Mysterious

• She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Different
  • Long
  • Age

• I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.

  

  Michael Giles
  • Time
  • Music
  • Never

• Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Hold
  • Adventurous
  • Self-pity

• Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Drinking
  • Drunk
  • Adventurous

• I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Guy
  • Adventurous
  • Coltrane

• You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do something difficult, doing it first for himself. That's my definition of sincerity.

  

  Stéphane Paut
  • Difficult
  • Sincerity
  • Definitions

• We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Thinking
  • Needs
  • Order

• I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Should
  • Individual
  • Borders

• She did not want to be that woman - the one of whom they spoke. She had never planned to be that woman. Somehow, it had happened, however...somehow, she had lost her way and, without realizing it, she had chosen this staid, boring life instead of a different, more adventurous one.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Different
  • Realizing
  • Boring

• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • World
  • Game
  • Possibilities

• As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Hot
  • Restless
  • Relentless

• Don't be a chicken, be a cat!" said Cecil. "Be adventurous"

  

  Valerie Martin
  • Cat
  • Chicken
  • Adventurous

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