Top 1200 Adventure Books Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

My life is ready, fire, aim, and it is one of adventure.

I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly

There are books on my shelf that I'm not into. They are things I don't know anything about yet. It's going to lead me off into a new place. The books don't represent an interest; they represent a source of my ignorance.

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

My life is an ongoing, ever changing adventure.

The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing for young people. You feel like you can help shape somebody.

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

In mysticism, there's more of a sense of adventure, of camaraderie.

While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

I'm quite pregnant actually ... this is the adventure of a lifetime.

My mom would keep all kinds of materials in her classroom for children for reading. She kept comic books, newspapers, sports magazines, and books of all kinds.

I wan’t a girl who is fun and loves adventure.

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive - books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.

I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.

The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be…. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.

If you crave a bit of adventure and the unknown, Singapore is not for you.

Every child is different. I think it's important that we don't have maybe just one or two books that we're recommending to all children - but rather we cater the books to fit each individual child.

I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

Life is an adventure - Savor every instant!

When I was young, I loved a series of books by an author called Maud Hart Lovelace and the series, which is still around, I'm happy to say, is - they're the 'Betsy-Tacy' books.

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.

The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.

At its core, what we do in 'MythBusters' is turn science into an adventure.

If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.

Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.

Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view.

An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.

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

Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

We had tried to get a couple books that were written about Ray Kroc, and one of the books, we called the publisher. The publisher actually said, "Call McDonald."

In advertisements for your favorite products, are women denigrated or objectified in some way? All of that is important. I would rewrite my kids' books, I would write it in the books for the babysitter!

While I read almost all my newspapers online, I'm not a big fan of e-books because I like to see what I've read and remember it. Books are a way of making memory physical.

Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to write books that aren't just using up trees.

I'm not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me.

You need to put yourselves in places where adventure can find you.

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.

I got that sense of travel and adventure from my father.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen. With wonder, she smiled. That such a room existed!

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.