Thrill Quotes - Page 13

• It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Feelings, Want

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• I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple’s tell-tale white earbuds. But I’m constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?

  Jonathan Ive

  White, Apples, Way

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• I had never intended to be on the show more than three years, regardless of how successful it was. I had other things I wanted to do. And I was offered a role in 'Red Sky at Morning', [1970]. I got that part because [producer] Hal Wallis had seen the HERE'S LUCY show with Ann-Margaret. It was a thrill for me, getting to do the drama and comedy. It was such a good role. So I missed several episodes of the show to shoot the movie. And I never came back but one.

  Desi Arnaz, Jr.

  Morning, Drama, Successful

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• The Musto Skiff combines the thrill of skiff performance with smooth control and well... it just blows your pants off!

  Tom Jones

  Blow, Pants, Sailor

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• Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

  Marina Warner

  Spring, Opposites, Desire

  Marina Warner, Sophie Herxheimer, Gilbert Adair (1994). “Wonder Tales”, p.3, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!

  Iris Apfel

  Discovery, Years, Shopping

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• If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.

  Horace Mann

  Knowledge, Childhood, Burning

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.12

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• In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Like Love, Self

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.162, PublicAffairs

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• If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.

  Richard Armour

  Fun, Golf, Holes

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• Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines-'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art.

  Dennis Nurkse

  Art, Dark, Silence

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• It may sound funny, but I got a thrill when I was pulled into a crowd once. It was like 'How am I going to get out of this?!

  Nick Carter

  Sound, Crowds, May

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• If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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• Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Fall, Giving

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• Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

  Phil Knight

  Sports, Athlete, World

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• We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of us wouldn't soar if God had thought there was merit in the idea? So, when we see one of those great widespread pirates soaring across the grain of sea winds we thrill, and we long, and, if we are honest, we curse that we must be men every day. Why not one day a bird! There's an idea, now, one day out of seven a pirate in the sky. What puny power a man can attain by comparison. Compare a 747 with a bird and blush!

  Roger Caras

  Heart, Men, Wind

  Roger A. Caras (1971). “Birds in flight”, Westover Pub. Co

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• I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the cathode-ray tube, and then grew slowly into a big deflection as the aircraft came nearer. This strange new power to "see" things at great distances, through clouds or darkness, was a magical extension of our senses. It gave me the same thrill that I felt in the early days of radio when I first heard a voice coming out of a horn.

  Robert Hanbury Brown

  Distance, Tired, Science

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• If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic. Your keynote can be ascertained by listening to some good music. When the note is played it will send a thrill right through you.

  Vera Stanley Alder

  Music, Play, Over You

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• German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

  Brian Lumley

  Real, Knowing, Spine

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• But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

  Rosanne Cash

  Writing, Giving, Perfect

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• When you ride the wave, the thrill is so exhilarating that you forget everything else. You live in the moment where nothing else matters, so intent on riding the wave perfectly that you and the wave become one. Pain and worry disappear, replaced by euphoria, akin to flow. Similarly, when giving empathy, you want to strive for this kind of total presence for the person you are listening to.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Forget Everything, Giving

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• Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind

  Gaston Leroux

  Angel, Quiver, Mankind

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.42, e-artnow

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• The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Jobs, Real, Creative

  "Learning Effectiveness and Faculty Satisfaction". Book by John Bourne, p. 11, 2000.

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• To only call Wizards, Aliens, and Starships engaging would be a real understatement--it is a delightful, funny, and immensely interesting romp through science and fiction. From candlepower to teleportation, all the way to the fate of the cosmos in the span of a googol years, this is a cornucopia of teachable material. It is also a reminder of the simple thrill of applying science to the world around us, real or imagined. A new classic.

  Caleb Scharf

  Real, Fate, Simple

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• Nothing will ever replace the feeling I got when Jesse Orosco
  struck out Marty Barrett
  to end the game (Game 7 of the 1986 World Series) and I got the opportunity to run out into his arms. To me, that was the greatest accomplishment. Without a doubt, that was my biggest thrill.

  Gary Carter

  Running, Opportunity, Games

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• Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Summer, Fall, Sadness

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