Thrill famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.
-- Abraham Maslow -
What a thrill that will be if I have to die in the electric chair. It will be the supreme thrill. The only one I haven't tried.
-- Albert Fish -
Going to the electric chair will be the supreme thrill of my life.
-- Albert Fish -
There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.
-- Alex James -
To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.
-- Amy Grant -
The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
-- Andre Malraux -
You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
-- Andy Warhol -
Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine†it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!
-- Anna Sui -
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
-- Anne Lamott -
I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.
-- Arthur Quiller-Couch -
Learn to thrill yourself... Make everything bright and beautiful about you. Cultivate a spirit of humor. Enjoy the sunshine.
-- Baird T. Spalding -
As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.
-- Benny Goodman -
You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.
-- Brandi Chastain -
German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.
-- Brian Lumley -
Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permission
-- Calvin Miller -
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
-- Camille Paglia -
If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne -
My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.
-- Chris Matthews -
The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.
-- Chuck Noll -
I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?
-- Cole Porter -
I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.
-- Conrad Hall -
As an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. I mean, I like a good thrill. Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump. But what I don't like is the gore. I don't like gratuitous violence and killing and all that kind of stuff. So it's kind of an interesting paradox.
-- Corey Feldman -
I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.
-- Cynthia Kenyon -
You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Determination can be a battle or a thrill. Choose to be thrilled.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
Being able to disappear and appear and go through walls and fly with the speed of thought isn't going to make you half as happy as to see those you witnessed to, Hi there! Wow, didn't I meet you on the streets? Didn't I talk to you about Jesus? Wow! Here you are! Hallelujah! That's going to be the biggest thrill of all!
-- David Berg -
In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill rather than endure the panic.
-- Dean Keith Simonton -
I wish I could stop but I could not. I had no other thrill or happiness.
-- Dennis Nilsen -
People like Johnny Depp are an exception. He is the current model of what an actor should be. His body of work speaks volumes. He was so under-rated for so long, but he will have longevity - and it is such a gratifying thrill to see he is finally getting the recognition he deserves.
-- Dustin Hoffman -
Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.
-- Edmund Hillary -
I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.
-- Elaine Stritch -
There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.
-- Errollyn Wallen -
You can't ask a guy like me why [I performed]. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ***** not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.
-- Evel Knievel -
I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.
-- Ewan McGregor -
For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
-- Ferran Adria -
I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting.
-- Frank Laubach -
When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
-- Frank Stella -
If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle with the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, and the Brown Bear. They will get their kicks, and it will cleanse their souls.
-- Fred Bear -
Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon.
-- Fred Lebow -
My greatest thrill? That's easy. It came the day Mr. McGraw named his 20 all-time players. I'm ninth on that list and that is thrill enough to last me a lifetime.
-- Freddie Lindstrom -
Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor.
-- Gary Saul Morson -
Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind
-- Gaston Leroux -
I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
-- George Burns -
If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.
-- George Eliot -
Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had
-- Hattie McDaniel -
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may seem more commonplace, it is not so to him. Each new insight into how the atoms in their interactions express themselves in structure and transformations, not only of inanimate matter, but particularly also of living matter, provides a thrill.
-- Henry Taube -
I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.
-- Hugh Shelton -
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
The greatest thrill is not to kill- but to let live.
-- James Oliver Curwood -
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
-- Jerry Saltz -
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.
-- Jessica Yu -
Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
-- Joe DiMaggio -
Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.
-- Joe Louis -
I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.
-- Joe Nichols -
The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.
-- Joe Sakic -
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking ...
-- John Irving -
they say life goes on long after the thrill of living
-- John Mellencamp -
It's such a thrill to perform live. You never know if you're going to get hit with a bottle or a bra.
-- John Rzeznik -
There's a thrill in going someplace you aren't supposed to go. The place should come down.
-- John Wagner -
The idea that I'm a homosexual thrill killer, that I stroll down the streets and stalk young boys and slaughter them... Hell, if you could see my schedule, my work schedule, you knew damn well that I was never out there.
-- John Wayne Gacy -
Let's love, press your lips to mine. Let's kiss, for that thrill divine.
-- Johnny Mathis -
When my life is throughAnd the angels ask me to recallThe thrill of them allThen I shall tell themI remember you
-- Johnny Mercer -
I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple’s tell-tale white earbuds. But I’m constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?
-- Jonathan Ive -
High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.
-- Joseph Barbera -
I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.
-- Joshua Bell -
I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke
-- Julian Clary -
I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.
-- Kara DioGuardi -
I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
-- Kate Smith -
Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.
-- Katharine Hepburn -
It's always a thrill to walk through a Broadway stage door.
-- Kelly Bishop -
It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.
-- Kelsey Grammer -
Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.
-- Kenneth Grahame -
When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.
-- Lady Bird Johnson -
I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.
-- Lara Spencer -
The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.
-- Larry L. King -
I'm dumbfounded by me all the time. Wow! What a.... thrill.....and a joy
-- Layne Staley -
Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.
-- Lester Patrick -
By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
-- Levon Helm -
I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.
-- Lisa Randall -
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too.
-- Luanne Rice -
I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.
-- Lucy Hale -
Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
-- Lynda Barry -
So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away.
-- Lynn Redgrave -
It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.
-- Lynn Samuels -
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more than anything else, readers are thrill-seekers, though I don't read thrillers, not the kind sold under that label, anyway. They don't thrill; only language thrills.
-- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -
Mumbai is like Manhattan. Theres a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
-- Madhuri Dixit -
She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.
-- Mahmoud Darwish -
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
-- Mandy Patinkin -
By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.
-- Marian McPartland -
If you want the ultimate thrill, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price.
-- Mark Foo -
Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.
-- Mark Rippetoe -
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.
-- Marvin Hamlisch -
We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous. We are concerned with the length of our skirts, with the latest lipstick, with the newest thrill in hats. We are impressed by advertisements that insist we must be alluring; we must adopt a time-consuming coiffure, we must spend hours with the "beautician," we must attend fashion shows. As long as women are preoccupied with nonessentials we shall be afflicted with infantilism, passivity, and the eventual disillusionment that results from trivial, unproductive lives.
-- Mary Barnett Gilson -
At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.
-- May Sinclair -
Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn’t mean you should.
-- Michael Nesmith
