So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.
Mom is really my closest friend and has been there at every stage. She is the adventurous kinds and made me travel by train alone when I was just five.
I went through big things at too young of an age, but, naturally, when you're young you're also adventurous.
I was a dreamer when I was at high school and even primary school. I used to dream about doing adventurous things.
The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.
Nothing's ever easy about composing for other people's projects, but I like it. I've been lucky to have worked with adventurous directors who trust me.
I think the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, whatever I did, I wanted to travel with my work, an adventurous spirit.
I adore my mother, and I am probably a chef because of my mother. She was adventurous.
I've always been adventurous - my wife calls me 'the Hip Hop Crocodile Hunter' - if you can survive in the hood, you can survive anywhere.
Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.
Being an American musician means being adventurous.
I'm not a super adventurous eater and I try to make myself try things.
It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I've also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste.
While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the spot to take whatever she taught.
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.
Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.
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.
Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political.
There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.
Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
It [space] was just so incredibly adventurous and exciting to me. I just thought there was no doubt in my mind that is what I want to do when I grow up.
Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.
I'm half Moroccan and half Indian so I have quite an adventurous taste in food.
I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.
Being adventurous and open to something different is something I'd encourage captains to do.
I was never a very adventurous eater growing up, despite the fact that my mother is a nutritionist and my parents have always had a garden in our yard.
To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.
We have a family holiday once a year, usually abroad, but that's it. I feel I should have holidays for my family's sake, but I'm not that adventurous.
I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
I'd like to write a series that, in an adventurous and fun way, teaches kids a way to discern between good and evil, to establish a foundation on moral absolutes.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.
I grew up in a very small town and didn't realise till later that I had an adventurous side. When I went to theatre school at 18, I came into my own and let loose.
Acting has influenced my approach to beauty in both practical and fun ways as well as influencing my style. I do like to be more adventurous - for some reason, I feel safer in that.
I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.
Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.
My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.
The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.
I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.
The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.
The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.
I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.
Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.
British cookbook author Elizabeth David led the most adventurous life but is widely credited with bringing to the fore the importance of home cooking.
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.
There isn't anything I don't eat, although I'm not too keen on creepy crawly things. Other than that, I'm quite adventurous. I like all types of red meat, and I'm not a fussy eater at all.
My family taught me to be adventurous. As fearless eaters, mum and dad were never afraid of exposing us to strange textures, scents, and offally bits - the works.
Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.
As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.
I am very adventurous with authors, but not very with genres.
I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.
I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying.
I always wanted to do a very fun, adventurous kind of car chase, and the opening of 'Ruin' is essentially like the 'Star Wars' trench run.
I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.
Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I.
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.
My parents, stupidly, always let me go downtown. This was pre-pager, even. It made me adventurous. I think it makes you tough.
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