Thrill Quotes - Page 5

• I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, World

  "A Wry Survivor, Elaine Stritch Returns to Film" by Leslie Bennetts, www.nytimes.com. December 21, 1987.

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• The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

  Bob Uecker

  Son, Errors, Games

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about.

  Steven Wright

  Book, Hero, Remember

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• At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Money, The End Of The Day

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• Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Sex, Fun

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.123, Macmillan

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• Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

  Mike Schmidt

  Reading, Agony, Cities

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• Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

  Christopher Moore

  Reading, Negative, Population

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series”, p.244, Hachette UK

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• What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

  Michael Cunningham

  Running, Morning, Simple

  Michael Cunningham (2013). “The Hours”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by contemplation, and never at all by somber worry; every day was a romp. What else could there possibly be to life? Eating was a thrill. Pissing was a treat. Shitting was a joy. And licking your own balls? Bliss. And everywhere you went were gullible humans who patted and hugged and fussed over you.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Fun, Worry, Joy

  FaceBook post by Carl Hiaasen from Mar 08, 2015

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• There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

  Tom Robbins

  Comfort, Violence, Conformity

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.86, Bantam

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• ...the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Skins, Body, Entwined

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• I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Moving, Eye, Meat

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• Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because you seek the thrill of flight, and on the up- kick, you lose your seat. Injury is likely. But if you worry about falling down, and never chance "up," the sky will remain forever out of reach.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Couple, Disappointment, Fall

  Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

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• Are you kidding?" She looked at me as if I'd just dropped from the moon. Her cheeks were bright red. "What's the problem now?" I demanded. "Me, go with you to the...the 'Thrill Ride of Love'? How embarrassing is that? What if somebody saw me?" "Who's going to see you?" But my face was burning now, too. Leave it to a girl to make everything complicated. "Fine," I told her. "I'll do it myself." But when I started down the side of the pool, she followed me, muttering about how boys always messed things up.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Boys, Moon

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• He recalled Galloran stating that being a hero meant doing what was right regardless of the consequences. The thought sent a thrill through him. Galloran had been in this same situation and had made the right choice. Jason felt less alone. Malodor had claimed that his opponents had no heroes among them. But Galloran was proof to the contrary. And Jason would be evidence as well. p. 420

  Brandon Mull

  Hero, Choices, Jason

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• You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

  Andy Warhol

  Bores You, Boredom, Needs

  "Andy Warhol's party book".

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• The man who knelt before her would have sprung from her needles, even down the ghostly flecks of silver in his hair. She had not known before that she wanted all these things, that she preferred dark hair and a slightly cruel expression, that she wishes for tallness, or that a man kneeling might thrill her.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Dark, Men, Hair

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.57, Macmillan

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• I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality.

  Billy Graham

  Sorry, Men, Vitality

  "A Time for Moral Courage". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Book, Madness, Sanity

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• It's time now to rent a car, roll down the windows and prepare for your first big thrill: the freeways. They're so much fun they should charge admission. Never fret about zigzagging back and forth through six lanes of traffic at high speeds; it erases jet lag in a split second. You're now heading toward Hollywood, like any normal tourist. Breathe in that smog and feel lucky that only in L.A. will you glimpse a green sun or a brown moon. Forget the propaganda you've heard about clean air; demand oxygen you can see in all its glorious discoloration.

  John Waters

  Fun, Moon, Air

  John Waters (1986). “Crackpot, the Obsessions of John Waters”, Vintage

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• She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Strong, Fate, Joy

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.611, Hamilton Books

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• She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Love You, Doe, Poet

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• She overcame a moment of hesitation and glanced at Jared. All the lights in his crazy gray eyes were dancing. A shiver went through her, a ripple of his delight. She felt again the way she had at the Crying Pools and at her house, the thrill of sharing your secret soul and having someone think it was wonderful.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Crazy, Eye, Thinking

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• I did not glow with the thrill of battle. Cringe, yes. Glow, no.

  Jennifer Estep

  Battle, Cringe

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.306, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Weed, Envy, Water

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.64, A&C Black

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