Thrilling Quotes - Page 9

• Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

  Richard Russo

  Library, Bookstores, World

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Feb 15, 2013

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• Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally exhaling to ask myself, 'What will happen next?' I highly recommend it.

  Kevin Powers

  Wish, Exhaling, Next

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• It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to ... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

  Tori Amos

  Letting Go, Journey, Dragons

  "Tori Amos puts new spin on old songs for 'Gold Dust'". Interview with Christine Kearney, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 25, 2012.

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• I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!

  Margarita Engle

  Ordinary, Way, Soar

  Margarita Engle (2012). “The Wild Book”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.

  Billy Crudup

  Real, Heart, Acting

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• Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life.

  Lucy Fry

  Uplifting, Surprising, Fulfilling

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• For the warrior of light there are no ends, only means. Life carries him from unknown to unknown. Each moment is filled with this thrilling mystery: the warrior does not know where he came from or where he is going.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Mean

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• Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Song, Religious, Heart

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.349, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute its searing power to a kind of magic. But Gary Younge's meditative retrospection on its significance reminds us of all the micro-moments of transformation behind the scenes--the thought and preparation, vision and revision--whose currency fed that magnificent lightning bolt in history.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Dream, Kings, Rights

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• Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to vivid life four extraordinary and audacious women, and runs glorious roughshod over all our traditional notions of the role of women in the Civil War.

  Megan Abbott

  Running, Liars, War

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• Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to say: it is thrilling and mind-boggling beyond all imaginings! It makes the Bible so puny and uninspired, and certainly less poetic, by comparison. I'm terribly sorry. I sincerely misunderstood so much. I almost wish there were a God so I could be punished for all the suffering I have obliviously caused in the world. But since there will be no cosmic punishment for me, I will spend what time I have left working in a family planning clinic in Latin America. Good day.

  Julia Sweeney

  Sorry, Latin, Humble

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• There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.

  Eric Stoltz

  Independent, Accomplishment, Glue

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

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• I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

  Iris Murdoch

  Women, Home, Two

  Iris Murdoch (1990). “The Message to the Planet”, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books

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• So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

  Gary Oldman

  Nice, Kids, Age

  "Batman Begins - Gary Oldman interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift.

  Susan Orlean

  School, Son, Ideas

  "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.

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• There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it.

  Eli Roth

  Knowing, Judging, Scary

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.

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• I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.

  Steven Spielberg

  Movie, Dad, Years

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

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• There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Giving, Joy

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• Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

  Gloria Swanson

  Fun, Fame, Ran

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• A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

  Robert Morgan

  Break Through, Asian, Watches

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• I used to watch the old 'Flash Gordon' series on TV, and it was thrilling to rocket to the planet Mongo every week. But after a while, I figured out that although Flash got the girl and all the accolades, it was really Dr. Zarkov who made the series work. Without Dr. Zarkov, there could be no Flash Gordon.

  Michio Kaku

  Girl, Rockets, Tvs

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• I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Real, Mean

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• I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

  Jane Campion

  Imagination, Directors, Maids

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• When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.

  Jane Campion

  Falling In Love, Waiting, Firsts

  "Ten Questions for Bright Star's Jane Campion: 'I've Never Made a Crap Film'". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 10, 2009.

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