#adventurers

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

Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit. ↗

— Tom Cochrane

#australia #break #canada #cultural #ground

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#after #amusement #areas #barrier #disaster

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#always #empires #great #great things #sovereigns

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message. ↗

— Moustapha Akkad

#because #blame #christianity #crusades #did

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour. ↗

— Steve Fossett

#aviation #endeavour #enthusiasts #everywhere #flight

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#ask #bend #books #characters #determines

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#afghanistan #anymore #leave #playground #possible

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t. ↗

— William Trogdon

#adventurers #find #go #hoping #kinds