Thrill Quotes - Page 22

• So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,
  Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Guests, Nails

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

  Sadie Jones

  Art, Light, Acquisition

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• Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful of sworn enemies than to the debilitation of old age, dying the death of the feeble. A gangster becomes as addicted to the thrill of the battle and the potential to die in the midst of it as he does to he more attractive lures in his path. In his world, the potential for death exists every day. The better gangsters don't shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity.

  Lorenzo Carcaterra

  Enemy, Dying, Age

  Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Gangster”, p.93, Ballantine Books

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• When my life is throughAnd the angels ask me to recallThe thrill of them allThen I shall tell themI remember you

  Johnny Mercer

  Angel, Remember You, Remembers You

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• People like Johnny Depp are an exception. He is the current model of what an actor should be. His body of work speaks volumes. He was so under-rated for so long, but he will have longevity - and it is such a gratifying thrill to see he is finally getting the recognition he deserves.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Long, People, Actors

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• Look, I'm just this kid from Toronto who got his start in school plays. I still live with my folks who make me mow the grass and take the garbage out. Then one day, I'm on this multimillion dollar set surrounded by R2D2 and C3PO. Every nuance was surreal. The saber. A thrill. The outfit and cloak? Mind-boggling. Meeting R2D2. An out-of-body experience.

  Hayden Christensen

  School, Kids, Play

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• I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….

  Peter O'Toole

  Dream, Opportunity, Men

  "Who's Who in America". Book by Dean Alfange, vol. 1, p. 42, 1984 - 85.

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• It would be thrilling if I could be boycotted or something. I think that's part of the thrill Madonna gets, when you know you've hit a nerve. But that doesn't scare me. To me what would be a lot scarier would be like appearing on an episode of 'Full House' or something.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  Thinking, House, Scare

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• It's always a thrill to walk through a Broadway stage door.

  Kelly Bishop

  Doors, Broadway, Stage

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• Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It's a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen.

  Nina Arianda

  Real, Thinking, Challenges

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• As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

  Benny Goodman

  People, Band, Way

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• Want me to spend the night? Hey lover boy, you know I will, and my best girlfriend lives down the road, together we will thrill you.

  John Mellencamp

  Girlfriend, Boys, Night

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• For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.

  Edith Grossman

  Disappointment, Athlete, Adventure

  Edith Grossman (2010). “Why Translation Matters”, p.26, Yale University Press

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• It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

  Maria Jeritza

  Character, Artist, Creative

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• I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Sleep, Half

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• Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

  David Crosby

  Song, Long, Poetry

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• The highest thing people can say about an artist is, 'You know, I felt he or she was singing right to me.' If you've got the goods, and you're honest, that's where the thrill comes in, because of the urgency of the people really feeling what they feel. It's right there.

  Steve Ross

  Artist, People, Feelings

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• I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Looks, Records, Albums

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• I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.

  Merle Haggard

  Squares, Old Glory, White

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• It was always a thrill for me, getting out of the cocoon and wandering. I'd let the wind wrap around me like fire and slip into the unknown with a moment's hesitation.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Fire, Wind

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• Certainly, possessions, money, and power can give a momentary thrill, the illusion of being happy, but they end up possessing us and making us always want to have more, never satisfied. ‘Put on Christ’ in your life, place your trust in him, and you will never be disappointed!

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Want, Illusion

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• The thrill of victory in business blows away the thrill of victory in sports. Business is a sport 24/7/365.

  Mark Cuban

  Sports, Inspiration, Blow

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• Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Sex, Riding, Someone You Love

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• It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Strange Person, Fame, Advocating

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• I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

  Odette Annable

  Scary

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