Adventurish Quotes & Sayings

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder. — Unknown

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them. — Barack Obama

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists. — Robyn Hitchcock

Show me where you spend your time, money and energy and I'll tell you what you worship.. — John Wimber

In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip falls overboard and is driven mad by the empty immensity of what he finds himself floating in. And when I teach school now I always teach Crane's horrific "The Open Boat," and get all bent out of shape when the kids find the story dull or jaunty-adventurish: I want them to feel the same marrow-level dread of the oceanic I've always felt, the intuition of the sea as primordial nada, bottomless, depths inhabited by cackling tooth-studded things rising toward you at the rate a feather falls. — David Foster Wallace

Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God. — Lionel Suggs

Without love we all like birds with broken wings. — Mitch Albom

Echoes of memorable emotions smiled at Tess reminding her of passed photos of scribbled pictures of drawn conclusions that had now
been unmasked to reveal the clear unconcluded overall view of a present tense scene that caused a stirring of wonderful contemplation on possible compatibilities that she wondered if could form into something more than mere sideline statistics from observational metaphors. — Calvin W. Allison

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. — Henry David Thoreau

People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety. — Judith Guest