Thrill Quotes - Page 3

• The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

  Ty Cobb

  Motivational, Baseball, Money

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• High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

  Joseph Barbera

  Getting High, Levels, Way

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

  John Cleese

  Growing Up, Busters, Exciting

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• It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Nhl, Play, Privilege

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• Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.

  Gustav Holst

  Music, Heaven, Eternity

  Gustav Holst, Michael Short, William Gillies Whittaker (1974). “Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker”, University of Glasgow French and German Publications

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• Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and you are not allowed to escape. You are not to go outside, you are not to entertain yourself, you are not to do, you are not to talk, you are not to read novels and detective stories. No thrill. No possibility to escape anywhere.

  Rajneesh

  Boredom, Technique, Stories

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• It's a thrill to be a fan amongst fans.

  Nathan Fillion

  Fans

  "Nathan Fillion Interview CASTLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• It's tremendously hard work. Yes, I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way and you know you're not quite there and you're redoing it and redoing it and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Fall, Hard Work, Writing

  "The Authors' Roundtable". Interview with Jon Meacham, www.newsweek.com. June 26, 2009.

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• You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Stupid, Car, Firsts

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'Talking'". Book edited by John W. Duffy, 2004.

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• If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Giving, Emotion, Feels

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.

  Joe Louis

  Boxing, Let Me

  Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

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• The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Garden, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.275, The Floating Press

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• (Talking about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)I can remember her singing, the thrill of it," she said. "She was one of my first inspirations.The people around me provided all the inspiration I needed. Everything I wrote (at that time) came from that experience, what I observed happening around me.

  Taylor Swift

  Inspiration, Grandmother, Talking

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• The chorus of “Jack and Diane” is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Are you kidding me? The thrill of living was high school? Come on, Mr. Cougar Mellencamp. Get a life.

  Mindy Kaling

  School, Long, Gone

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.34, Three Rivers Press

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• An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Sports, Life Lesson, Hard Work

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• I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.

  Henry Rollins

  Intelligent, Thinking, Talking

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• When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Snow, Growing, Firsts

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• The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving.

  William Arthur Ward

  Giving, Joy, Lasting

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• It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Fun, Childhood

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• I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Nuts, Play, Ties

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• Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the gay, with thrill.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Sadness, Sleep

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• My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field.

  Snoop Dogg

  Football, Determination, Son

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

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• It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

  Vin Diesel

  College, Racing, Motorcycle

  "Vin Diesel: I Want To Be A Good Dad". Interview, parade.com. August 25, 2008.

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• My biggest thrill came the night Elgin Baylor and I combined for 73 points at Madison Square Garden. Elgin had 71 of them.

  Rod Hundley

  Basketball, Night, Garden

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• It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Get Well, Hard Work, Serious Illness

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