Top 100 Quotes About Adrenaline
#2. What's so interesting about 'Point Break' to me is that it's a study of testosterone and adrenaline by a woman. That's why it's little more interesting than it should be.
John C. McGinley
#3. I think you have to be scared every morning that you go out to shoot, or you lose your edge. With actors, there has to be that adrenaline and you have to keep challenging yourself, and I certainly challenge myself, as a director.
Susanna White
#4. Blood is pounding in my ears. Lingering smoke and tequila fill my nostrils as adrenaline courses through my veins. My lips curl into a smile. The only thing that would make this night more perfect is if I had killed some zombies.
Annie Walls
#5. I'm an adrenaline guy. I like to do stuff that gets my blood pumping, like roller coasters or jumping out of planes. I'm into all that crazy stuff.
Ja Rule
#6. Adrenaline pumped through her veins. Was it the thrill of the ride or something else making her heart pound?...She clamped her eyes shut as the roller coaster started to drop and squeezed the words through her tightened throat. "I love you.
Rachel Skatvold
#7. I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality
Billy Graham
#8. Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
Hannibal Buress
#9. Let the wet earth embrace you firmly, soundly.
She needs to be revived, she needs to beat like a heart
full of adrenaline inside a chest.
V.S. Atbay
#10. I've learned how to turn self-doubt into an energy source and to metabolize fear into a result-producing adrenaline.
Michael Strahan
#11. Like any smart person in my predicament, I made sure the light was pointing right in my eyes when I turned it on. Nothing like a case of temporary blindness to get your adrenaline running.
Mark Tufo
#12. My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports ... and life.
Alexander Ludwig
#13. When I get home from touring, I need to find something to match that so I don't get my adrenaline withdrawals. Being exposed to every element of danger while you're sitting on a motor -
that, to me, is freedom.
Mitch Lucker
#14. I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.
Stephen Lang
#15. Doesn't the thought of marryin' me give you an adrenaline rush?
Simone Elkeles
#16. The reason I could last for that long a period of being up was because the piece accidentally caught the excitement and adrenaline from, "Ooh this sounds different from usual ... Ooh I like that ... " That was the energy that kept me up.
Marnie Stern
#17. Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.
Thomas Boswell
#18. To get the adrenaline going before the game for a big league baseball game was pretty special.
Daniel Hudson
#19. The danger in it. Being a frontman in a band, you get addicted to adrenaline rushes.
Mitch Lucker
#20. All actors know that the real adrenaline rush is in doing theatre. There is an immediate connect, and a role in a play, for an actor, is the biggest temptation.
Lillete Dubey
#22. I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.
Alan Shearer
#23. I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.
Imelda May
#24. I don't like roller coasters. I don't like bungee jumping. I don't like snow boarding really fast down the hill. I am not someone who is an adrenaline junkie.
Jane Levy
#25. Thanks to the race-day adrenaline rush, any pace will feel easier than normal. So make a conscious effort to hold back in the early miles.
Lorraine Moller
#26. I love horror films, but it's more than an adrenaline rush for me. I love them because I know they scare me. It's kind of like I go on roller coasters, but I'm terrified of roller coasters, sort of thing.
Emily Browning
#27. You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.
John Barrow
#28. I love the adrenaline of my bike. I always have. I try my best to let it chase away the feel of Olivia at my back, but I think nothing short of a week locked up in a bedroom with her can accomplish that. And oh what a week that would be.
M. Leighton
#29. If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
Alan Hirsch
#30. And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.
Diablo Cody
#31. But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some punks were trying to break into my house and I chased them down.
Sara Paretsky
#32. Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.
David Horsey
#33. You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.
Daniel J. Levitin
#34. If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.
Rebecca Hall
#35. Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks
Dan Brown
#36. Look at her. She looks so harmless and meek, but inside she's a lion. Tory is an adrenaline junkie the likes of which you've probably never seen ... everything from deep-sea diving to base jumping. Hell, she even jumps out of perfectly good airplanes for fun. (Pam)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. Really, he has only two emotions: sleeping and adrenaline overdrive.
Neal Stephenson
#39. Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.
Pedro Martinez
#40. It was M-m-moe and Shorty," I said. "Damn, I can't stop
shaking."
"Adrenaline burn-off," Ranger said. "It's normal."
"Why aren't you sh-sh-shaking?"
"I'm not normal.
Janet Evanovich
#41. I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.
Daniel Libeskind
#42. Now, half an hour later, adrenaline thrust him into overdrive. Storms of shale and spall burst from the ground. Ropes of sweat braided his skin. He swung again and again. The heavy pick shattered earth. Digby was in a rhythm, a digging trance, that rare state of archaeological
Shaun Morey
#43. In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.
Jonathan Haidt
#44. If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable.
Palmer Luckey
#45. I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.
Roger Clemens
#46. We're high on the adrenaline of feeling, even though we know it's fleeting and evanescence. And we're getting worse
checking texts and emails and Facebook every five minutes, always searching for that next hit of feeling, that next morsel of approval.
Deborah Meyler
#47. I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.
Gina Carano
#48. Bring your dopamine or adrenaline level down by activating other regions of the brain other than the prefrontal cortex.
David Rock
#49. I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.
Kurt Vile
#50. Don't get me wrong - I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush.
Patrick Carman
#51. People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason, I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I'm different.
Shakira
#52. In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.
Ben Horowitz
#53. The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.
Paulo Coelho
#54. Along with Coach Edge, who was still so charged with adrenaline that every time the ship hit turbulence, he swung his bat and yelled, Die!
Rick Riordan
#55. Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.
Gary Kemp
#56. Her pulse raced, pounding in her ears above the howling wind. A wave of dizziness crashed over her with the rapid flood of adrenaline. She gasped in a breath. "Don't let go.
G.S. Jennsen
#57. Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.
Jeannette Walls
#58. Here's to adrenaline.
Here's to dramatic abandon of protocol.
Here's to treasured pain and purple rain.
Here's to chasing our souls,
burning across to sky.
Here's to drinking the ash as it falls,
and not asking why.
Virginia Petrucci
#59. But adrenaline, like any other drug, wears off. Panic, like any other flood, must crest.
Karen Thompson Walker
#60. I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.
Lauren Graham
#61. Confessing I didn't, I scribbled the directions on the notepad I always kept by the phone. I hung up and my feet were already on the floor as adrenaline hit my nerves like espresso. The house was quiet. I grabbed my black medical bag, scuffed and worn from years of use. The
Patricia Cornwell
#62. I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.
Joe Johnston
#63. I do like pop music. It's that certain thing that it gives you: the adrenaline rush, that instant gratification.
Lorelei Linklater
#64. She had drawn strength from everyone else's weakness, hoping that her adrenaline-fueled bravery would carry her safely back to normality,
Robert Galbraith
#65. When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
Samantha Bond
#66. So decisive", he murmured in that calm tone that had adrenaline flooding her body, the primitive part of her brain conscious she was in the presence of a predator. "Got your eye on someone?" She didn't know what made her say it. "No. But I have no plans to die a virgin.
Nalini Singh
#67. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I love climbing crazy trees or cliffs, which doesn't make my mom very happy.
Stephen Colletti
#68. Stop being an adrenaline junkie who is waiting for the happy ending instead of seeing the happy being.
Andrea T. Goeglein
#69. Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.
Marcus O'Sullivan
#70. I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.
Florence Welch
#71. Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline.
Horst Faas
#72. Action scenes get me so excited, and my adrenaline starts pumping.
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
#73. Feeling alive is merely a rush of adrenaline.
Jenn Bennett
#74. When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.
Jerry Saltz
#75. After the adrenaline had worn off and medals had been awarded and the glory meted out, only the suffering remained after a battle.
Brian McClellan
#76. Wayde yelled, and I hit him again, adrenaline pulling a scream of outrage from me. He went quiet, and I held my breath to make sure I could hear him breathing. I suppose I could have used my magic on him, but this was a lot more satisfying.
Kim Harrison
#77. It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.
Raphael Saadiq
#78. What motivates people to be late? ... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an ego boost from over-scheduling and filling each moment with an activity.
Harvey MacKay
#79. I get an adrenaline rush from "playing with the big boys." I consider myself a tomboy and was an athlete in high school, so I like to "talk shop" anyway. But it's fun to actually get paid to cover the NFL with all these incredible former players and sports anchors.
Megan Alexander
#80. People are attracted more towards bad things because being good has been turned into a boring duty. No adrenaline & dopamine rush, no rewards!
Saurabh Sharma
#81. I feel less adrenaline in my body now, but more in my head. I tried to be at my best, and I succeeded.
Andriy Shevchenko
#82. It is difficult for me to commit to an manuscript. Once, I get finished writing it. I get this feeling of adrenaline, and satisfaction. This is when the amusement begins, for the writer's side of me.
Mary Sage Nguyen
#83. I'm interested in loving, beautiful, sexy images ... I also want the images to be a turn on, create an adrenaline high, a rush of desire so intense that the act of looking is sexual.
Tee Corinne
#84. People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.
Oprah Winfrey
#85. She gazed at the bay of wrecked shuttles in dismay. The last of her adrenaline seeped away at the sight of the widespread destruction.
It occurred to her then, for perhaps the first time in this long nightmare, that she was going to die.
G.S. Jennsen
#86. It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very exciting, and not many people get to experience that. It's pretty special.
Lauren Hart
#87. The first day without you is painful in a way that is almost exquisite. I imagine quitting smokers must feel like this, or crash-dieters - the early determination, where the loss of what you have given up is replaced with the adrenaline of denial.
Louise Doughty
#88. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. Until now there had been every urgent reason to obliterate any attention that might otherwise have been paid, banish the thought, bring fresh adrenaline to bear on the crisis of the day.
Joan Didion
#89. The adrenaline of death is difficult to match. A mind knows when lief is really at stake. You can't convince it otherwise, you can't lie to it.
Sarang Gupta
#90. When you model for a show, you get this real sense of adrenaline. It's difficult when the shoes are so high - that part's quite scary - but you just have to do it.
Ymre Stiekema
#91. People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.
Aaron Stanford
#92. When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around.
Joe Perry
#93. Adrenaline after a gunfight's like a coked-up rock star in an expensive hotel room. It doesn't leave until it trashes the place.
Craig Schaefer
#95. I always sleep really well, particularly before a race, when the adrenaline's pumping.
Jenson Button
#96. Filming is physically and emotionally hard, especially acting in something like this, where we go into the honest feelings of these people. But it's also very exciting because there's an adrenaline that's pumping (through you) when you're doing these scenes.
June Squibb
#97. We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back to the music in its rawest form, without studio polish or radio hooks ... People want something that gives them an adrenaline rush. We're here to supply that fix.
RZA
#98. I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.
Brooke Burke
#99. Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.
Lynsey Addario
#100. I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.
Steve Irwin
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