Quotes On Adventure By Mark Twain

#1. Loneliness is better than bad company.

Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani

#2. Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

Mark Twain

#3. We made many trips to the lake after that, and had many a hairbreadth escape and bloodcurdling adventure which will never be recorded in any history.

Mark Twain

#4. And escape?" "Escape, sure. But it wasn't so much about getting away, as going to. You can go anywhere in a book. Books

Rachel Cohn

#5. The Apple store is not a store. It is an exercise in evangelism.

Paco Underhill

#6. There's this huge number of desperate people.

Lloyd Alexander

#7. As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so also can no investigator point out the origin of Medicine - mysterious as the source of the Nile.

Thomas Sydenham

#8. I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

J.B. Priestley

#9. The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts

Albert C. Barnes

#10. They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God in our inerrant Scriptures or in our infallible pronouncements or in our unbroken apostolic traditions.

John Shelby Spong

#11. Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

Mark Twain

#12. Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.

Val Kilmer

#13. I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

Bret Easton Ellis

#14. If you want to make someone cry, make them think of every person who hurt them.
If you want to destroy someone, make them think of every person who they have hurt.

Pleasefindthis

#15. Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

Oscar Wilde

#16. Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!

Mark Twain

#17. The spirit of God is mighty upon us.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Viv, I just made you wild-caught Alaskan salmon baked with mango chutney, on a bed of garlic red potatoes and arugula. While talking about an Audrey Hepburn movie. I think you are maybe falling in love with me.

Emery Lord

#19. There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#20. The birth of any show is always a rough one.

Genevieve Gorder

#21. An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

Mark Twain