#adventures

Certainly. Of course. That’s part of it. And always coming to school or when we’re going home, you’re to walk with me, when there ain’t anybody looking – and you choose me and I choose you at parties, because that’s the way you do when you’re engaged. ↗

— Mark Twain

#home

It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#entitled-in-love #love-story #toxic #life

Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor. ↗

— Sally Armstrong

#adventure-romance #adventuresome-women #canadian #historical #native-american

We are all products of our environment; every person we meet, every new experience or adventure, every book we read, touches and changes us, making us the unique being we are. ↗

— C.J. Heck

#experiences-and-adventures #how-we-become-us #who-we-are #change

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#been #briefly #circumstances #country #day

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#adventures #cars #day #driving #family

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#adventures #amazed #being #different #different things

Rest in Peace?’ Why that phrase? That’s the most ridiculous phrase I’ve ever heard! You die, and they say ‘Rest in Peace!’ …Why would one need to ‘rest’ when they’re dead?! I spent thousands of years of world history resting. While Agamemnon was leading his ships to Troy, I was resting. While Ovid was seducing women at the chariot races, I was resting. While Jeanne d’Arc was hallucinating, I was resting. I wait until airplanes are scuttling across the sky to burst out onto the scene, and I’m only going to be here for a short while, so when I die, I certainly won’t need to rest again! Not while more adventures of the same kind are going on. ↗

— Roman Payne

#agamemnon #carpe-diem #death #jeanne-of-arc #mythology

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#canada #encouraged #large #place #really

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths. ↗

— John Stockwell

#attention #bowl #diverting #effective #military