Thrill Quotes

• The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Cute Love, Romantic, Dance

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "Looking Forward".

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• I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

  Nikola Tesla

  Motivational, Success, Heart

  "Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication" by Tim O'Shei, (p. 5), 2008.

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• Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Motor Racing, Nascar Racing, Drug

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• For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love You, Faults, Wonderful

  Song: It Had To Be You

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• If the thrill is gone, it's time to take it back.

  Meat Loaf

  Inspirational, Gone, Ifs

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• That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to be able to produce the pace at the very finish. It gives a thrill which compensates for months of training and toiling. But it is the sort of race that one wants only about once a season.

  Jack Lovelock

  Running, Race, Giving

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• I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more than anything else, readers are thrill-seekers, though I don't read thrillers, not the kind sold under that label, anyway. They don't thrill; only language thrills.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Book, Giving, Connections

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.5, Beacon Press

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• What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, Fall, Rocks

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• No risk? Then no danger of losing and finally no thrill in winning.

  Sandeep Kumar

  Motivational, Winning, Risk

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• The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

  David Sarnoff

  Believe, Victory, Battle

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• You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ends, Live By

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.601, Cambridge University Press

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• The thrill is to keep envisioning what can be.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Envisioning

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• There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.

  Alex James

  Flying, Machines, Safe

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• Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.

  Edmund Hillary

  Snow, Mountain, Tiny

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• Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

  Robert Burns

  Cutting, Men, Scotch

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• The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe that perfection has been attained.... There is no thrill or joy in merely doing that which any one can do.... It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.

  Henry Harrower

  Believe, Men, Perfection

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• Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you -know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of nervous tension which animates the sensuality, and also Zimroth's feeling for words, compressed, ironic, withholding, but also 'asking for it . . . the siege, the thrill, the battle fatigue.' A profoundly urban book, of harsh memory and fantasy, set in harsher reality.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Pain, Memories, Book

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• If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you’re getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Attitude, Heart, Thinking

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• How many more years I shall be able to work on the problem I do not know; I hope, as long as I live. There can be no thought of finishing, for 'aiming at the stars' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.

  Robert H. Goddard

  Stars, Years, Long

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• Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the dubious exhilaration of grand philosophical theory, in which messy reality is tamed and caged, but the thrill of seeing pretension punctured by a kind of high-voltage common sense (backed up by impressive erudition). . . . There is no one in philosophy quite like him.

  Colin McGinn

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Writing

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• Parties don't thrill me. I like sitting at home with a tub of Chunky Monkey ice cream watching Big Brother or Friends.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Brother, Party, Home

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• Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

  David Hockney

  Landscape, Enjoyment

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• No matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.

  Robert H. Goddard

  Progress, Matter

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