Thrill Quotes
464 quotes by 415 authors
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I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
— Amanda Lindhout
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Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for…
— Erich Fromm
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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…
— Gary Saul Morson
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If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill…
— John Cheever
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Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
— Robert Burns
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All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling…
— Edna Ferber
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Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game…
— John Lahr
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I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill…
— Jonathan Raban
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By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.
— Marian McPartland
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It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.
— Todd Phillips
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Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation…
— Andre Maurois
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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…
— Frank Stella
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In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the…
— Frederick Lenz
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The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.
— Joe Sakic
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
— Laura Wade
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That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
— Anne McCaffrey
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When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the…
— Stephen King
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I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand.…
— Marisa Tomei
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I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know…
— Vash Young
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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…
— Lynn Redgrave
Who Wrote These Thrill Quotes
415 authors contributed a total of 464 Thrill Quotes, led by these top contributors: