“On losing the opportunity to star in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 'You know what? It happened for the right reason. Although I would have made a good Clark Kent. I look better in glasses.” KnowsLooksMadeReasonOpportunityStarsHappenedAdventureLosingGlassesKentNew Adventure Author:Kevin Sorbo
“I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1938 For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.” MindStarsGrowthFireMovementAdventureSourceHairCallingDiscoveryJournalRestlessDiariesNuanceExhilaration Author:Anais Nin
“Theres two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once youve read, you never look at the world the same way again.” WorldWayLooksTwoBookLastsStarsFictionAdventureScience FictionSolveSci FiMcdonalds Author:David Gerrold
“CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary adventure where the characters seem set free from the force of gravity.” CharacterBigsSeemsActionForceStarsAdventureFatsGravityNeverthelessEpicTigersVisionariesHong Kong Author:Roger Ebert
“Reincarnation ... makes life what it is intended to be -- a glorious adventure in which victory is absolutely sure to be ours if we persist. It proves that man [is] ... master of his fate on his road to the stars.” IfsMenStarsFateAdventureMastersVictoryProveGloriousReincarnationPersist Author:Shaw Desmond
“What is it that drives us outward to the stars above and to the shores below? Is it the security of knowing what's there? Or is it the adventure of finding it?” StarsKnowingSecurityAdventureFindingsShore Author:Chris Hogan
“'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.” WorldWellsLongCharacterHelpingStoriesActionStarsSecurityAdventureDramaConceptsBuiltTrainMissionsDefinedRangePerformingExplorationTransportationFormatWagonsYorktown Author:Gene Roddenberry
“Well - when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures - all these little stars That shake out of my cloak - I must save those To use for asterisks.” WritingWellsLittlesBookUseStarsAdventureTalesShakesCloaks Author:Cyrano de Bergerac
“Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.” ChildrenStillsMomentsAbleCertainStarsFeltLaughingShareAdventureHappeningsLonelySightForgottenCome UpScalesFasterPeterIrritatingMermaidNeverland Book:Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels
“Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.” HelpingStarsSpaceDestinyAdventureOffersTravelTestsInnovationExtraordinaryCommerceFunny TravelOur Destiny Author:Bill Frist
“Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars, and the rarified matter in space should all be profoundly influenced by measurements from balloons, rockets, probes and satellites. ... In a new adventure of discovery no one can foretell what will be found, and it is probably safe to predict that the most important new discovery that will be made with flying telescopes will be quite unexpected and unforeseen.” ShouldMayMadeImportantMatterScienceFoundStarsSpaceSunStudyFieldsPlanetsAdventureSafeDiscoveryAstronomyFlyingObservationAtmosphereUnexpectedRocketsMeasurementBalloonsTelescopesSatellitesUnforeseenNew DiscoveriesNew Adventure Author:Lyman Spitzer
“'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' (1977) is probably the most influential film of my generation. That work was the personification of good and evil and the way it opened up the world to space adventure, the way westerns had to our parents' generations, it left an indelible imprint. So, in a way, everything that any of us does is somehow directly or indirectly affected by the experience of seeing those first three films.” WorldWayFirstsDoeWarFilmThreeEvilLeftStarsParentSpaceSeeingGenerationsAdventureGood And EvilAffectedEpisodesInfluentialMy GenerationIndeliblePersonificationNew Hope Author:J. J. Abrams
“The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.” StoriesUniverseStarsAdventureDawnRestlessAstonishing Author:Elissa Schappell
“A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime.” IdeasFacesStarsAdventurePagesLifetimeShipsNo IdeaBlankCaptainsBlank Pages Author:Michael Piller
“What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?” WellsDreamAgeStarsSidesBoysFeetSkyStreetsAdventureLaysWildernessHorizonBurnedVirginsLitLampsLawnsVelvetFleeingUntamed Book:The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo Source: The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo
“Through the clouds of smoke I seemed to see all old Asia before me, and the adventures of past years behind me. A carnival of old camp-scenes danced before my mind’s eye, expiring like shooting-stars in the night—merry songs which came to an end among other mountains and the dying sound of strings and flutes. And I was surprised that I had not had enough of these things and that I was not tired of the light of camp-fires.” YearsMindEndsEnoughLightEyePastNightSongStarsSoundBehindsFireDyingAdventureSceneMountainTiredCloudsSmokeShootingStringsCampsAsiaMerryHad EnoughFlutesCarnivalsShooting Star Author:Sven Hedin