Top 100 A Thrill Quotes
#1. In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
Fede Alvarez
#2. I find it said, if only of Atys or Adonis, "There was a conception that the god sacrificed himself to himself." The man who can read those words without a thrill is dead. The
G.K. Chesterton
#3. 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
#4. When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
Gary Cherone
#5. Men love independent women because they leave them alone. They love chasing women who are busy. It gives them a thrill, as big as a touchdown or a home run.
Ellen Fein
#6. 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
#7. There is a thrill in relishing the suffering of strangers, and they hide their interest with worried faces.
Rin Chupeco
#8. Why, I wondered, did people seek out portrayals of the very experiences that, in real life, would send them mad with despair? Shouldn't art be an escape, a laugh, a comfort, a thrill?
David Nicholls
#9. What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts.
Dean Bakopoulos
#10. To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle of car keys is enough to send most any dog into a whimpering, tail-wagging frenzy.
Jon Winokur
#11. They're cloaking," I said, as the pieces clicked into place. "They're using Iron glamour to twist the light around themselves so they appear invisible." I felt a thrill of discovery, of knowing I was right. All those years of watching Star Trek had finally paid off.
Julie Kagawa
#12. People often assume I assume I am a thrill seeker, but I am not. I do not enjoy roller coasters, and you won't find me bungee-jumping ... It is a disadvantage that my pursuits are inherently dangerous. A large part of my effort is to reduce risk.
Steve Fossett
#13. I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.
Ewan McGregor
#14. Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishment doesn't give meaning to life, and yet without it life seems meaningless.
Diane Ackerman
#15. There's a thrill when you have a hard set, a rugged workout, and you feel it, and you take it, and you go beyond it.
Tracy Caulkins
#16. The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.
Joseph Goebbels
#17. I ski, I snowboard, I've started to get into skydiving a little bit. I'm a little bit of a thrill-seeker.
Alexander Gould
#18. Come here, female! a thundering voice called out to Sorvus. A thrill of excitement at this male's voice instantly shot up her spine. It is him, she thought. It is my Destoul.
Madison Thorne Grey
#19. There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.
Mira Sorvino
#20. Morning dawned bright and sparkling after the rain. The air was keen and crisp. The cedars glistened as if decked with diamonds. Pan felt the sweet scent of the damp dust, and it gave him a thrill and a longing for the saddle and the open country.
Zane Grey
#21. I've never felt massively satisfied from standing there while someone takes my photograph. It's never given me a thrill.
Jamie Dornan
#22. Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.
Charles M. Schwab
#23. That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
Anne McCaffrey
#24. There were two options - call the foul or don't - and either way, he would lose, but there was a thrill here in this moment when actual combat might have replaced the shadowboxing he'd been doing for months now with every last person he loved.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#25. His tongue rubbed over hers. She cautiously stroked back with her own, earning a little growl of approval. A thrill chased over her skin. Heat built between their bodies, melting away some of her anxiety.
Tessa Dare
#26. It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.
Ian Millar
#27. He had to admit that it was a thrill to be wanted by Logan Mitchell.
Ella Frank
#28. For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the culture shift with time zone. Seeing how threads unwind and unravel is just a thrill, and you can't really share that magic.
Christopher Poole
#29. You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team - I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill.
Roger Clemens
#30. It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.
Randy Pausch
#32. What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.
Michael Cunningham
#33. When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.
Lisa Guerrero
#34. I think diversity of thinking and healing traditions from around the world are good for us. The movement itself has evolved enormously and it's been a thrill to be part of it.
Elizabeth Lesser
#35. I remember what a thrill it was to go from the back streets of Birmingham to Madison Square Garden in New York ... it's like playing on Mars. You can't buy that.
Ozzy Osbourne
#36. Math is "maths," an elevator is a "lift," a truck is a "lorry," a flashlight is a "torch," and "crisps" are what they call potato chips, while "chips" over here means French fries. Just as riding the double-decker buses thrills me, I get a thrill out of hearing people talk.
Heather Vogel Frederick
#37. I had an opportunity to meet Elvis, only once. It was at the MGM Grand. It was certainly not at the height of his career. No, it wasn't at the height of his career, but it was still a thrill to see him and meet him anyway. You know?
Lesley Gore
#38. Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.
Phil Knight
#39. I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill.
Kim Cattrall
#40. Norton was supremely gifted as an awakener, and no thoughtful mind can recall without a thrill the notes of the first voice which has called it out of its morning dream.
Edith Wharton
#41. It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!
Francis Chan
#42. Give me a thrill, says the reader,
Give me a kick;
I don't care how you succeed, or
What subject you pick.
Philip Larkin
#43. If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic. Your keynote can be ascertained by listening to some good music. When the note is played it will send a thrill right through you.
Vera Stanley Alder
#44. To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.
Joanna Lumley
#45. I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton and Harold Pinter. I've been in six different Pinter productions - I love the clarity of his language. He has this way of using words - there's a thrill to them.
Kenneth Cranham
#46. Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.
Joe Louis
#47. Life is a blast when you know what you're doin',
Best to know what you're doin' 'fore your life get ruined.
Life is a thrill when your skill is developed,
If you ain't got a skill or trade, then shut the hell up.
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
#48. 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
#49. That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to be able to produce the pace at the very finish. It gives a thrill which compensates for months of training and toiling. But it is the sort of race that one wants only about once a season.
Jack Lovelock
#50. I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
George Burns
#51. I'm a bit of a thrill-seeker. I used to race mountain bikes when I was a kid. I did the national circuit for two years.
Tanc Sade
#52. It was an honor and a thrill to have the chance to meet His Holiness, Pope Benedict, and then to have lunch with Prime Minister Berlusconi ... I think Italy and the U. S. have a very strong friendship and relationship, and I'm proud of that.
Laura Bush
#53. Determination can be a battle or a thrill. Choose to be thrilled.
Danielle LaPorte
#54. I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.
Kurt Cobain
#55. Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
Steve Irwin
#57. Still, as much as I had experienced, there was more waiting to be found. I had started out with a feeling of burning dullness and desperation. Now I was filled with a thrill and expectation of new discovery.
Peter Jenkins
#58. You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.
Billy Graham
#59. 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
#60. I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I worked in a factory in high school. The poor folk who lay out the hard bread to see a game. That's where my heart lies. The rich don't need heroes.
Leon Wagner
#61. Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you
almost apart from their meaning
a thrill like music?
C.S. Lewis
#62. I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.
Kara DioGuardi
#63. My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq ... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
A.R. Rahman
#64. 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
#65. Don't take away my fun." She smiled and leaned my way. "Every Friday, him in my yard, sweatin' and mowin' my lawn. Even old women need a thrill." She settled back and closed her eyes. "That right there's gonna be mine." If
Kristen Ashley
#66. I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill.
Mike Lowry
#67. There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.
Tom Robbins
#68. To be joining 'The Hunger Games' family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it's well written, handles really big subject matter, but doesn't talk down to its audience. And then there's the romance element.
Natalie Dormer
#69. 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
#70. There's a thrill in going someplace you aren't supposed to go. The place should come down.
John Wagner
#71. Her hair is troublesome and curly ... It falls in long, black strands, but each strand has a gentle, complicated undulation travelling through it, like a mild electric shock or a thrill, hat gives it a life of its own; it is visually analogous to a tremolo on a musical note.
Amit Chaudhuri
#72. Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind
Gaston Leroux
#73. I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sound.
Josh Radnor
#74. It may sound funny, but I got a thrill when I was pulled into a crowd once. It was like 'How am I going to get out of this?!
Nick Carter
#75. It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
Wayne Gretzky
#76. Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life is definitely worth living, whether you're working or not. For an actor, the character is the thing ... it doesn't matter what medium you're in. as long as you have something to do.
Elizabeth Mitchell
#77. If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.
Richard Armour
#78. Lou could imagine Rich hiding within. She closed her eyes, letting her mind wander, search, and finally focus on him. Hurry up, Rich, she thought. Feeling the tug of connection, a thrill of anticipation ran up her spine. Lou didn't let herself nudge events often, but she did it today.
Danika Stone
#79. Two meh minutes of my life I'll never see again." Fallon snorted. "His basement couch had more of a thrill than I did.
Naima Simone
#80. I shouldn't get a thrill out of seeing her upset, but when her nose crinkled that way and her eyes heated, I couldn't help but getting turned on.
Ashlan Thomas
#82. Popular music is like a big party, and it's a thrill sneaking in rather than being invited. Every once in a while, a guy with his shirt on inside out, wearing lipstick and a pillbox hat gets a chance to speak.
Tom Waits
#83. My mom has raised me saying, "Always be yourself." So to be able to play a character that verifies just that, is such a thrill and adventure for me.
Atticus Shaffer
#84. But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,
Rafael Sabatini
#86. When he touches me, I feel like everywhere his skin meets mine is changed by the connection. It sends a thrill through my stomach. Not just fear. Something else, too. A wanting.
Veronica Roth
#87. After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.
Luanne Rice
#88. But I get a thrill out of bringing a group together and helping them reach a place they didn't know they could go. I see myself as a mentor now and I'm excited to lead some of these talented young guys.
LeBron James
#89. I frequently look back at my life, searching for that fork in the road, trying to figure out where, exactly, I went bad and became a thrill-seeking, pleasure-hungry sensualist, always looking to shock, amuse, terrify and manipulate, seeking to fill that empty spot in my soul with something new.
Anthony Bourdain
#90. He wondered if he really was capable of it. Then he thought what a thrill it would be to create something from nothing; to see, one day in the future, a new church here where now there was nothing but rubble, and to say: I made this.
Ken Follett
#91. When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.
Ethan Hawke
#92. It's a thrill to look at the clear night sky and discover a new star before anybody else sees it.
Haruki Murakami
#93. We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it's a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
David Lynch
#94. Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.
Thomas Wolfe
#95. You have to go hunting to know the excitement of seeing someone get their first deer. It's a thrill for them. It is.
Patty Hearst
#96. 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
#97. For nobody else, gave me a thrill - with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you. - As sung by Frank Sinatra
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#98. I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.
Imelda May
#99. Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again.
Roger Ebert
#100. Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.
Tilda Swinton
