Thrilling Quotes

• An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesn’t motivate us as effectively. Reality isn’t engineered to maximize our potential. Reality wasn’t designed from the bottom up to make us happy.

  Jane McGonigal

  Powerful, Real, Challenges

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.11, Penguin

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• I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

  Hugh Jackman

  Love, Fall, Men

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• Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.

  Mark Morris

  Beautiful, Ties, Important

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• No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

  Mark Haddon

  Clever, Mind, Literature

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• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.189

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• There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

  Jean Shepherd

  Letters, Fewer

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• I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Unhappy, Exciting

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• Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.

  Perry Brass

  Being Yourself, Embrace, Voluptuous

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.27, Perry Brass

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• Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dying Love, Measure For Measure

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

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• I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.

  Andy Warhol

  Country, Night, Thinking

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• I never know when I'll find myself jumping out of a helicopter or something. It's like we're making a new action movie every week, which is pretty thrilling.

  Lucas Till

  Jumping, Action, Week

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.

  Graham Nash

  Writing, Opportunity, Ongoing

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• Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is it less rousing if they don’t rattle your windows and nerves with indiscriminate sonic booms just because they can?

  Rabih Alameddine

  Needs, Nerves, Bombs

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• War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

  Tim O'Brien

  Love, Fun, War

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.

  James D. Watson

  Mind, Gathering, Horizon

  James D. Watson (2007). “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science”, p.324, OUP Oxford

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• Its just as disappointing as it was thrilling to win the Masters. To come very close, to play so hard for 72 holes and play better than everybody but one guy is disappointing.

  Phil Mickelson

  Winning, Play, Guy

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• Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!

  John Osborne

  Voice, Long, Heaven

  'Look Back in Anger' (1956) act 1

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• I think there's something thrilling about going into a movie house and seeing everything on such a huge screen. I think we're in a culture now that is confronted with various sizes of screens, the biggest movie houses and then the smallest iPods.

  Glenn Close

  Thinking, Ipods, House

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• And when you're with a great crew like we had, it becomes a thrilling, again, collaboration, which is to me one of the great aspects of the process that you go through. I find myself at this point in my career, getting potentially, incredibly bored if I stand around a lot, so that's why I really like the pace of television.

  Glenn Close

  Careers, Bored, Collaboration

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• It's thrilling to have the opportunity to work in different areas, whether it's on a project that has all the resources behind it like Harry Potter or James Bond and then to go somewhere there's very few resources.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Opportunity, Different, Potters

  "Coriolanus - Ralph Fiennes interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that's so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.

  Bill Bryson

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  "Bill Bryson answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• It's thrilling and it's an honor to be part of something bigger than your own self.

  Venus Williams

  Self, Honor, Bigger

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• Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate best-selling author - but I live and die for the work. That's thrilling to me. It's thrilling that I do for others what certain writers did for me when I was a kid.

  James Ellroy

  Kids, Winning, Numbers

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Nothing is more thrilling than winning a match for your team.

  Virender Sehwag

  Team, Winning

  Source: sports-sportsnewslive.blogspot.com

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