#advent

The game is afoot. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #adventure

Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity? ↗

— Rachel Caine

#adventure

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#reading #adventure

Never trust a man who reads only one book. ↗

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

#adventure

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ↗

— Helen Keller

#avoiding #children #danger #daring #does

Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#adventure

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them... ↗

— William Petersen

#adventure-stories #fiction #fiction-writing #thrillers #unicorns

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#am #i #i am #kind #like

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#active #adventure #expects #experience #goes

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ↗

— John Updike

#artists #behalf #content #distinguishes #entertainers