Thrilling Quotes - Page 10

• I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

  Nick Cave

  Reading, Insane, Stories

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. November 24, 2004.

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• There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

  Agatha Christie

  Children, Reality, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.

  Diablo Cody

  Laughter, Writing, Two

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• I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

  Tina Fey

  Art, Thinking, Dying

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2006.

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• Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Inspirational, Funny, Knowing

  "'Avengers' Star Tom Hiddleston on His Supervillain Character: 'His Whole Life is a Lie' " by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 03, 2012.

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• Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Opposites, People, Interest

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• It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

  Norman Wisdom

  Nice, Laurels, Laurel And Hardy

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

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• Life is serious. (Valerius) No, life is an adventure. It's thrilling and scary. Sometimes it's even a bit boring, but it should never be serious. (Tabitha)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Adventure, Scary, Serious

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Seize The Night”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heart, Trying, Breathless

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.16, e-artnow

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• Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

  Dan Quayle

  Past, Stupidity, Challenges

  Speech to California delegates to the Republican National Convention, August 17, 1988.

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• She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

  Jack London

  Dog, Men, Fire

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.49, Jack London

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• The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Nature, Writing, Reality

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• True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.

  J. D. Greear

  Sacrifice, Blessing, People

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• Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.

  Luis Palau

  Winning, Want, Christ

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• A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

  John Muir

  Life, Song, Cutting

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sophisticated, Scorn, Laughed

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.16, Atlântico Press

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• It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

  Christine Quinn

  New York, Cities, Able

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• Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be involved in the thrilling real-life sleaziness that we suspected Hester was in the thick-of. We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.

  John Irving

  Real, Television, Phases

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• It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work with [on 'The Elephant Man']. It was a very thrilling time, actually.

  John Hurt

  Men, Elephants, Wonderful

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.

  Bill Gates

  Fun, People, Empowering

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• I think the thing I really got from Ginsberg was that you can tell a story through kind of painting pictures with words. And when I found out that you could have a profession doing that, it was thrilling to me. It just became my passion immediately, playing with words and poetry.

  Lana Del Rey

  Passion, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It is true that the top quintile is getting richer while the bottom is getting poorer, but the bottom is not the same people. There is, fortunately, a constant churning at the bottom as new immigrants move in and those who used to be on the bottom begin their long, thrilling upward climb to the American dream.

  Dick Morris

  Dream, Moving, Long

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• Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

  Toni Morrison

  Sister, Sweet, Crazy

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• I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I wouldn't want people to know.

  Natalie Merchant

  Careers, People, Interesting

  "Paradise is here: an interview with Natalie Merchant". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, livingoutli.org. April 19, 2016.

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• Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.

  Greg Iles

  Eye, Past, Knowing

  Greg Iles (2004). “The Footprints of God”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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