Thrill Quotes - Page 14

• Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

  Jerry Saltz

  Passion, Mystery, Turns

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• We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake, but also the eternal welfare of many of our brothers and sisters who are not now members of this, the true Church. I thrill to the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith in a letter that he sent to the Church from Nauvoo on September 6, 1842: 'Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward. … Courage … and on, on to the victory!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Brother, Lds, Victory

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• Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?

  Umberto Eco

  Couple, Encounters, Damnation

  "Foucault's Pendulum". Book by Umberto Eco, 2007.

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• when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.

  P. C. Cast

  Kindness, Body, Surface

  P. C. Cast (2011). “Goddess Of The Sea: Number 1 in series”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world, you also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.

  Richard Dawkins

  Giving, Understanding, Tutorial

  "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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• The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill of watching something die. Why does the stereotype of the animalistic killer persist? Because humans like it. It neatly explains things for them, moving humans to the top of the evolutionary ladder and putting killers down among mythological man-beast monsters like werewolves. The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Sports, Moving, Animal

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.25, Vintage Canada

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• Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reading, Self, Lust

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• There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

  George Orwell

  Forever, Enemy, Victory

  George Orwell, Michael Sherborne (2005). “Nineteen eighty-four, [by] George Orwell”

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• Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

  David Levithan

  Desire, Pure

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.19, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• they say life goes on long after the thrill of living

  John Mellencamp

  Long, Goes On, Life Goes On

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• The thrill of being ignored!

  Markus Zusak

  Being Ignored, Ignored

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.125, RH Childrens Books

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• I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Winning, Please Me

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.213, Penguin

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• Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

  Anne Lamott

  Rose, Ego, World

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.218, Anchor

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• Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.

  Neal Shusterman

  Dream, Refuse, Your Dreams

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• I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The [people] for whom I feel the greatest sadness are the ones who choke on their beliefs, who never act on their ideals, who never know the state of struggle in a decent cause, and never know the thrill of even partial victories.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Struggle, Believe, Sadness

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• In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.

  Eoin Colfer

  Children, Thinking, Parent

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• Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

  Laini Taylor

  Happiness, Stars, Passion

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• We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.

  Abraham Maslow

  Perfect, Weakness, Glimpse

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• Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn’t mean you should.

  Michael Nesmith

  Mean, Mouths, Toddler

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• The greatest thrill is not to kill- but to let live.

  James Oliver Curwood

  Peace, Animal, Animal Rights

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• I still recall the day when I became known not just as Gay Brewer, but 'Gay Brewer, winner of the 1967 Masters.' The reality of the title – the biggest thrill I've had in golf – is something that can never be taken away.

  Gay Brewer

  Taken, Golf, Gay

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• All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.

  Jay Griffiths

  Hate, Light, Shining

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• Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!

  Anna Sui

  Discovery, Velvet, Excitement

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• A building can be designed to satisfy by the month with the regularity of the provider. Or it can give satisfaction in a very different way, by the moment, the fraction of a second, with the thrill of a lover

  Richard Neutra

  Giving, Different, Way

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• I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke

  Julian Clary

  Laughing, Ends, Sentences

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