Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

I accept any challenge, so challenge me

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

Unless you enter the tiger's lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger's cub's.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

I like adventure.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.

I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

I'll try anything once. It's always good to see peoples' faces surprised - surprised that I race, or that I surf, that I trekked through the Himalayas. As long as I don't die, I'm good.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

Great things are won by great dangers.