Frisson Quotes

#1. Was it frisson when you saw a guy smile and it made your heart act all weird?

Meg Cabot

#2. When you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ...

John Geddes

#3. It is important to understand that in the modern world we prefer the replica to the original because it gives us the greater frisson. I leave that word in French because I think you understand it well that way.

Julian Barnes

#4. Because the erotic frisson is such that the kiss that you only imagine giving,can be as powerful and as enchanting as hours of actual lovemaking. As Marcel Proust said, it's our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.

Esther Perel

#5. He's a man, she thought, and the very word gave her s frisson, a lurch inside.

Louisa Young

#6. In work, it is possible to find commitment, attachment, chemistry, and connection. In fact, it's high time that more people acknowledged the electric pull that women can feel for their profession, the exciting heat of ambition and frisson of success.

Rebecca Traister

#7. A charm of Goldfinches swooped in and settled on a stand of thistles, pecking at the down. It was a scene Jejeune had seen a thousand times on calendar pages, one of the most picturesque in nature. It still gave him a frisson of delight and he paused for a moment before speaking. p. 147

Steve Burrows

#8. She likes the frisson of improvisation. Fun cannot be scheduled. Fun simply occurs.

Rumaan Alam

#9. Damen said, 'Men, sometimes.'
'In the absence of women?'
'When I want them.'
'If I'd known that, I might have felt a frisson of danger, lying next to you.'
'You did know that,' said Damen

C.S. Pacat

#10. Every time the telephone rings, you feel a frisson of excitement. The call is almost never exciting, but it is in our character to keep on believing.

Chloe Thurlow

#11. In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

Katie Roiphe

#12. An unprecedented number of uniformed males, marching, parading and engaging in mock battles in every region of Great Britain brought a pleasant frisson of excitement into many normally quiet and deeply repetitive female lives.

Linda Colley

#13. Microsoft is ten times smarter, a hundred times more aggressive, and bound by no particular rules. It gives Randy a little frisson just to imagine Harvard Li's situation: being chased across the planet by Microsoft's state-of-the-art hellhounds.

Neal Stephenson

#14. To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.

Constant Lambert

#15. As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

Margaret Carlson

#16. Yes, it was scary, but every time I got a frisson of fear I tried to remember what Frank Quinn was always telling me. "Susan, believe in yourself. You are the person writing your story.

Susan Boyle

#17. He felt a frisson of shyness when he pulled his shirt off, but he firmly told his modesty it could go fuck itself in the bathroom with that giant cockroach and continued undressing.

M. Jules Aedin

#18. Things are very different now because a lot of those little clubs don't exist. In Soho for instance, where nearly half my nightlife photographs were taken, it's rapidly changing. There isn't the same after dark frisson of excitement about the place any more.

Derek Ridgers

#19. There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#20. Russia is emerging as an essential diplomatic and security partner for the U.S. in Syria, despite the Obama administration's opposition to Moscow's support for President Bashar al-Assad.

David Ignatius

#21. If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.

Anatoly Karpov

#22. You have no idea of the people I didn't marry.

Artie Shaw

#23. Composition has almost always been solitary.

Wendy Carlos

#24. My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved.

Tony Robbins

#25. A clear pattern soon emerged, as demonstrated by many polls: the more prominently Christians entered the political arena, the more negatively they were viewed by the rest of society.

Philip Yancey

#26. We don't do anything illegal, we do 'run-ins'

Edge

#27. I like a funny girl. Smart. Talented. I like someone who is good at music - that always intrigues me.

Tom Felton

#28. The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

#29. You might call them soft, because they're very reluctant to kill, and they might agree with you, but they're soft the way the ocean is soft, and, well; ask any sea captain how harmless and puny the ocean can be.

Iain M. Banks