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

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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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• Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Girl, Lying, Love You

  "The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery".

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• A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Voice, Silence

  William Wordsworth, “The Solitary Reaper”

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• The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

  Francois Truffaut

  Travel, Hippie, Adventure

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• The higher the rope, the more thrilling it is to climb.

  Michelle Gibson

  Motivation, Rope, Higher

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• In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

  Simon Schama

  Illumination, History, Narrators

  Simon Schama (2000). “A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603”, Miramax

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• In other words Luke's story is historically impossible and internally inconsistent. He lied to fudge the fulfillment of Micah's prophesy and to provide a villain to play off Jesus in his fictitious drama.
  Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing. I find the reality thrilling.

  Richard Dawkins

  Jesus, Drama, Reality

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• ‎"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reality, People, Religion

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• If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

  David Hockney

  Beautiful, Passion, Thinking

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• There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

  Dan Barker

  Joy, Doubt, Mind

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

  Robert MacNeil

  Uplifting, Children, Heart

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• Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth' on the fingers of coastal land, suggests that such notable features of our planet as dinosaurs, the prairies, the Himalayas, the seagull, the female of the species herself, were accidental by-products of the Almighty's preoccupation with the creation of the Old Course at St. Andrews.

  Alistair Cooke

  Moving, Golf, Land

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.114, Arcade Publishing

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• With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would have found appalling—an example of the moral decay of the young generation. It was sexual and dangerous and thrilling, and Evie wanted more of it.

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Young Generation, Example

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