Thrill Quotes - Page 12

• It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start thinking about what would happen if I stepped off, the rush of the fall, the shattering collision, the quiet emptiness of death. Part of me wants to experience the thrill of complete surrender.

  Darren Shan

  Fall, Suicidal, Thinking

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• Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.

  Lynda Barry

  Kind, Letterman, Enjoyed

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• Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Sports, Play, Ruth

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• He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through,—to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Love, Romantic, Fire

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1513, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Names, Solitude

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.373, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you're frightened of damaging yourself, you increase the risk of doing just that. Consider the tightrope walker. Do you think he spares any thought for falling while he's walking the rope? No, he accepts the risk, and enjoys the thrill of braving the danger. If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know... I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive.

  Mathias Malzieu

  Fun, Fall, Thinking

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• It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend the shows and this is the liturgy. You're interested in relics -- guitar picks, set lists, the sweaty napkin applied to His brow. You set up shrines in your room. It's not just about the music. It's about who you are when you listen to the music and who you wish to be and the way a particular song can bridge that gap, can make you feel the abrupt thrill of absolute faith.

  Steve Almond

  Crush, Song, Religious

  Steve Almond (2010). “Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us”, p.71, Random House

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• The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

  Madeleine Albright

  America, United States, States

  "Madeleine Albright: The road forward". CNN.com chat room, edition.cnn.com. September 18, 2001.

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• There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

  Tom Robbins

  Comfort, Violence, Conformity

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.86, Bantam

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• What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

  Michael Cunningham

  Running, Morning, Simple

  Michael Cunningham (2013). “The Hours”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.

  David Lynch

  Interesting, Soul, Different

  "David Lynch on why he hates "It's A Small World"". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. July 17, 2013.

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• I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.

  Brian Lumley

  Writing, Air, Ideas

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• I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

  Stewart Lee

  Creative, Confusing, Way

  Stewart Lee (2010). “How I Escaped My Certain Fate”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

  Marilyn

  Sex, Real, Eye

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• As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early age.

  Alan Shearer

  Kids, Goal, Age

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• The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing,
  is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you
  didnt know was in you.

  Larry L. King

  Writing, Typewriters, Lines

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• You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team - I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill.

  Roger Clemens

  Team, Mean, Years

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• It's such a thrill to perform live. You never know if you're going to get hit with a bottle or a bra.

  John Rzeznik

  Bottles, Bras, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle with the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, and the Brown Bear. They will get their kicks, and it will cleanse their souls.

  Fred Bear

  Teenage, Soul, Grizzly Bears

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• Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book in my hand, a sensual delight from the smell and crispness of the pages. I loved the smoothness and bright colors of their jackets. For me, a stacked, unread pyramid of books was one of the sexiest architectural designs there was, because what I loved most about books was their promise, the anticipation of what lay between the covers, waiting to be found.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Book, Reading, Hands

  Debra Ginsberg (2006). “Blind Submission: A Novel”, p.4, Crown

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• I'm dumbfounded by me all the time. Wow! What a.... thrill.....and a joy

  Layne Staley

  Joy, Wow

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• A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Jingles, Bells, Four

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1966). “The Unmaking of a Mayor”, Viking Adult

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• Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Heart, Wine, Men

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• Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!

  Abbie Hoffman

  Fun, Honor, Want

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• But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

  Vanessa Mae

  Animal, Mind, Touring

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