Stakes Adventure Quotes

#1. We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.

Sarah Cross

#2. Whatever men make," she says, "what they felt when they made it is there ... Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

John Updike

#3. Information overload (on all levels) is exactly WHY you need an "ignore list". It has never been more important to be able to say "No

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#4. How 'bout you, Jena?" He leaned closer, speaking in an exaggerated whisper. "We could go somewhere private. I know you probably got some scars from being shot, but you can't see a scar in the dark, right?"
The dickwad was offering her a pity fuck in a darkened room?

Susannah Sandlin

#5. The right conclusion can be handled in the wrong way. Focusing on other people's sins, while ignoring our own, would be the wrong way.

Kevin DeYoung

#6. If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money

Robert Graves

#7. You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being ... Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.

Richard Dawkins

#8. Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.

Brandon Lee