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“I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.”
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“If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.”
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“I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.”
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“To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]”
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“But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.”
Source : Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.123, Courier Corporation
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“(George Bush) betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place!”
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“Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.”
Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.31, Baker Books
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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.†But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,†according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”
Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
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“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”
