Top 100 Quotes About Adventurer
#1. You wear your armor even to dinner, Lady Wilhelmina?"
"Of course I wear armor. I am sitting with a pirate, a mercenary, an adventurer, and a bounder. If a shot is not fired tonight, I daresay that your reputations are nothing but lies.
Meljean Brook
#2. An adventurer has a purpose. Such as finding new lands and valuable treasures. A misadventurer, besides doing it for the hell of it and for a good time, doesn't really have a good purpose.
S.A. Tawks
#3. And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regard as the maddest part of a mad species.
Rafael Sabatini
#4. What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.
Chris Roberson
#6. In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond.
Marc Guggenheim
#7. You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.
Paulo Coelho
#8. He realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure. "I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure," he said to himself.
Paulo Coelho
#9. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
Richard Bach
#10. Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.
Douglas Adams
#11. As an entrepreneur, you've got to protect against the company going bust. And as an adventurer, you've got to protect against losing your life. It's even more important as an adventurer to get it right.
Richard Branson
#12. For even the most dehumanized modern fantasies depend on some older and simpler figure; the adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be sane.
G.K. Chesterton
#13. Jefferson, incidentally, was also a great adventurer with foods. Among his many other accomplishments, he was the first person in America to slice potatoes lengthwise and fry them. So as well as being the author of the Declaration of Independence, he was also the father of the American French fry.
Bill Bryson
#14. I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn't care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.
Roman Payne
#15. That is how our arch-adventurer likes to live, moving on from explosion to explosion of fortune and misfortune.
Stefan Zweig
#16. The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#17. An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.
Jonas Mekas
#18. That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.
Joseph Conrad
#19. I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it.
Monique Coleman
#20. Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer.
Helen Oyeyemi
#21. My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.
Brian Herbert
#22. I know I am planning to visit a "land" that is not entirely foreign, only foreign to me. As an adventurer, I am on a journey that I believe will last me my whole life. A new relationship, discovery, or awareness excites me.
Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem
#23. I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations.
Gore Vidal
#24. The life of an adventurer appeared to consist of roughly six parts boredom to one part stark terror, or so it seemed to Jig.
Jim C. Hines
#26. When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a brute.
Victor Hugo
#27. I'm a sensual adventurer, Sue. I want to explore the passion I feel, really dig into the heart of it, the dark parts, too. I wanted to take you on that journey with me. But if you don't want to go, that's fine.
Wodke Hawkinson
#28. The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplishment, when the adventurer deliberately sets his face toward the new road, knowing that his boats are burned.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#29. Why do women love The Princess Bride so much? Here's a thought: because its hero, Westley, is able to simultaneously fill the roles of dashing romantic adventurer and seriously devoted (maybe even borderline henpecked) fiance.
Stephen H. Segal
#30. The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. Henry
#31. I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him - or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
Jorge Luis Borges
#32. Victim or life's adventurer - which of the two are you?
Morrissey
#33. I think planning to be a "professional adventurer" is about as realistic as planning to be a basketball player, so I don't usually encourage it.
Andrew Skurka
#34. Laughter broke from them. It spread into a roar of acclamation; for bluff is a weapon dear to every adventurer.
Rafael Sabatini
#35. When I picture a perfect reader, I always picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born adventurer and discoverer
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.
Paulo Coelho
#37. My job is, I'm a photographer. I'm something of a filmmaker. And primarily, I'm an adventurer. My job is to help people fall in love with their world, their planet. With the understanding that you don't save what you don't love.
Sebastian Copeland
#38. Forget about what goblins would do. Forget about what an adventurer would do. I need to figure out what Jig should do.
Jim C. Hines
#39. Within the heart of every boy is an adventurer.
Kevin Leman
#40. I can't imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don't feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer. I'm very happy doing what I'm doing. I think somehow I know that I should have a larger vision of art, but I can't think of what that would be.
John Baldessari
#41. The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
Ovid
#42. I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.
Shekhar Kapur
#43. I've heard the sound of 70 condoms being scraped over the floor at the British Museum. It feels like being an adventurer. Why would you stay in your living room if you could go out and experience things no one's ever experienced?
Herbert
#44. Archaeologist, adventurer - I saw the Indiana Jones movies. They are the same.
Christina Dodd
#45. Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
Louis Bonaparte
#46. The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously
James Joyce
#47. The ideal adventurer needs ... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs ...
P.G. Wodehouse
#48. Evelyn: Look, I ... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.
Rick: And what is that?
Evelyn: I ... am a librarian.
The Mummy (1999)
Max Allan Collins
#49. Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.
Freya Stark
#50. I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#51. Had he been naive, or overambitious? Both, probably. In life, you might be a bohemian and an adventurer, but you also sought a pattern, an arrangement to help you through, even if
even as
you kicked against it.
Julian Barnes
#52. Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.
Robert Aris Willmott
#53. I would have grown up to be a gentleman adventurer if I were more of a gentleman.
Alex Potvin
#54. I'm very musically curious and I love new experience. I'm an adventurer. Some people want to sort of stay in a safe zone and repeat the same things and give them more depth, and I want to do new things all the time
Tavis Smiley
#55. [ ... ] I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession.'
'As sanitary engineer?'
'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world.
Bruce Chatwin
#56. The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#57. When they happen across an Adventurer from Mexico, and the ancient City he has discover'd beneath the Earth, where thousands of Mummies occupy the Streets in attitudes of Living Business, embalm'd with Gold divided so finely it flows like Gum.
Thomas Pynchon
#58. The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.
Rachel Platten
#59. ... not a fighter ... an adventurer. He doesn't attack, he engages; He doesn't defend, he expands; He doesn't destroy, he transforms; He doesn't reject, he explores; ... .
Tom Robbins
#60. I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.
Peta Wilson
#61. Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another ...
H. Rider Haggard
#62. When I dreamed about becoming a fantasy adventurer, I was always a max-level character with epic gear. Look at me. I'm wearing vendor trash.
Noelle Alladania Meade
#63. The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#64. The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#65. If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
Alan Hirsch
#67. Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.
Paulo Coelho
#68. intrepid adventurer would have been seen in those sparsely populated
Bob Biderman
#69. I would describe myself as a "budding adventurer." I've transitioned away from being a straight-up backpacker, but I think I need another trip or two to get the adventurer degree.
Andrew Skurka
#70. I'm an adventurer and I enjoy all types of things, and eating is a part of that. It's just too bad we have to watch what we eat.
Lynda Carter
#71. Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
Edmund Hillary
#72. As an adventurer ... I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you have to take calculated risks; otherwise you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing.
Richard Branson
#73. Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this. It was while I was in this position, the blood rushing to my temples, that the door swung open.
Tahir Shah
#74. The Romanovian method becomes one of appointing adventurer after incompetent after nonentity to grand offices of state. The liberals and the sharper-witted right grow ever more apoplectic.
China Mieville
#75. The mind is a wild thing. An adventurer.
A. Spencer
#76. I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.
Edith Wharton
#78. Cervantes, the soldier and adventurer, rose above the prejudices of his class, while Shakespeare never lifted his eyes beyond the narrow horizon of the Court to which he catered. It was love that opened Cervantes's eye, and it is in all-embracing love that Shakespeare was deficient.
William Shakespeare
#79. By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.
Errol Flynn
#80. He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.
Kurt Vonnegut
#81. Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am ... only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#82. A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
Arthur Baer
#83. You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.
Paulo Coelho
#84. And that continued for quite a while until the adventurer admitted that it IS an accepted fact among monsters and giants of all stripes that Englishmen are delicious.
Christopher Moore
#85. If you are an adventurer, you will not be interested in where the road goes or where the road ends; you just keep going!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#86. I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.
Jacki Weaver
#87. Ezra, the girl you're chasing after doesn't exist. I'm not some bohemian adventurer who takes you on treasure hunts and sends you secret messages. I'm this sad, lonely mess who studies too much and pushes people away and hides in her haunted house.
Robyn Schneider
#88. The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist ... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean ...
Daniel Clowes
#89. I'm an adventurer. There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd love to do an Angelina Jolie and dress in lycra and kick the crap out of somebody in a movie. It doesn't matter how rubbish the script is.
Cush Jumbo
#90. Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.
Paul Mellon
#91. Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail."
"Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent.
Brandon Mull
#92. The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin, the greater the adventure).
John Irving
#93. You are the adventurer of your life so try hard to find the diamond in your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#95. Life will hit you hard, regardless of what you do - adventurer, business person, king.
Robert J. Crane
#97. He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books.
Paulo Coelho
#98. Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.
Michael Foot
#99. I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
Paulo Coelho
#100. Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.
Robert Fulghum
