Thrilling Quotes - Page 13

• A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

  Hannah Kent

  Ice, Feelings, Together

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Thinking, Making Love

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• And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.

  Robert Helpmann

  Country, Art, Eye

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• I've probably read maybe by now fifteen, twenty books on Matthew. I'd say the authors I like best are an English fellow named Michael Goulder, who taught at the University of Birmingham in England, and he writes about the Jewish background in Matthew's gospel, which is part of what I was just talking about, which is just really thrilling to me.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Writing, Talking

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• One of the things that really has gone wrong in modern politics, one of the things that made Trump possible was that many people have a view of politics as something dramatic and exciting and thrilling and emotional.

  David Frum

  Emotional, Views, People

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded phenomena, stored away by the physiological inquisitor on dusty shelves, are mostly of as little present use to man as the knowledge of a new comet or of a tungstate of zirconium ... -contemptibly small compared with the price paid for it in agony and torture.

  Henry Jacob Bigelow

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  "Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other Papers". P. 309. Book by Henry Jacob Bigelow, 1894.

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• An Oscar is a total honor. It's thrilling, and on the one hand, it means a lot of things, and on the other hand, it doesn't really mean anything. It's a moment in time.

  Julia Roberts

  Mean, Hands, Honor

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• Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Giving, Minutes, Domain

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.343, Discovery House

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• Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor.

  Chris Pavone

  Letting Go, Character, Laughing

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• I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.

  David Hockney

  Want, Rich

  "Hockney on ... politics, pleasure, and smoking in public places". Interview with Marion Finlay, FOREST Online, July 28, 2004.

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• It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

  Bill Bryson

  Finding Yourself, World, Angle

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.17, Random House

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• The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change - or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Tiny, Possibility, Bunch

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

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• The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.

  Dale Carnegie

  Dull Life, Interesting, World

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• My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

  Yahoo Serious

  Art, Stupid, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

  Ann Druyan

  Math, Years, Training

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• Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.

  Jack London

  Fire, Earth, Forests

  Jack London, Gene Engene, Books in Motion (2007). “Call of the Wild”, p.132

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• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beach, Ocean, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt.

  Margaret Atwood

  Powerful, Naughty, Whispering

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jan 26, 2012

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• There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture Then lapped the white, sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited.

  Bram Stoker

  Eye, Animal, White

  Lucy Hartbury, Bram Stoker (2013). “Dracula: The Wild And Wanton Edition”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, and she disappears for long stretches, and she has no patience for the rest of your existence; your wife, your children, your friends. She is the most thrilling evening of your week, but some day she will leave you for good. One night, after she's been gone for years, you will see her on the arm of a younger man, and she will pretend not to recognize you.

  David Benioff

  Beautiful, Children, Night

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.124, Penguin

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• I never dreamed of being a flagbearer. Every athlete has a wish to get to the Olympic Games. I had that wish, but to carry the flag of your country is doubly thrilling.

  Shani Davis

  Country, Athlete, Games

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• A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Children, Mean, Passion

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• All lovers are unique. Bad sex can be very thrilling for the heart.

  Duncan Fallowell

  Sex, Heart, Unique

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• We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain—her whole brain—that develop skills that lead to better relationships, better mental health, and more meaningful lives. You could call it brain sculpting, or brain nourishing, or brain building. Whatever phrase you prefer, the point is crucial, and thrilling: as a result of the words we use and the actions we take, children’s brains will actually change, and be built, as they undergo new experiences.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Meaningful, Children, New Experiences

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• The gorgeous breathlessness and thrilling pulse -- those are sensations that the years have layered on top of the initial emptiness, like sheet after sheet of silk covering a bare table. More than fifty years later I can only see the cloth; the table has been obscured.

  Tash

  Years, Pulse, Covering

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