Quotes About Thrills

#1. I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

Billy Graham

#2. Life is like a roller-coaster with thrills, chills, and a sigh of relief.

Susan Bennett

#3. You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

Marilu Henner

#4. Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

Rita Wilson

#5. Money can buy a house, but not a home; a bed, but not rest; food, but not an appetite; medicine, but not health; information, but not wisdom; thrills, but not joy; associates, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; flattery, but not respect.

Pat Williams

#6. I don't think anything I do in life is planned. Sometimes I regret that and I feel like I try to take ahold of the wheel, but I'm also always super excited when things pop up spontaneously and when I'm a little bit out of my depth. I just find that that thrills me.

Liz Phair

#7. The kingdom of formal ideas will always be a weak neighbor to the kingdom of thrills

Tom Robbins

#8. There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

Max Lerner

#9. The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this way. As we wait for our final day. But there's one thing about the pills I take. My manic episodes have taken a break

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#11. Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.

Roger Crawford

#12. His impunity thrills me, I mistake it for fearlessness, though years later he will admit to being afraid all the time.

Nick Flynn

#13. when it comes to love there is nothing so cowardly as a safe compromise. Life should be an adventure. There should be thrills. Risks.

Erica James

#14. Jesus, life has its share of honorable thrills if one but keeps one's eyes open!

J.D. Salinger

#15. The simple man, baby, pays for the thrills, the bills, and the pills that kill.

John Mellencamp

#16. that is just why a vague religion - all about feeling God in nature, and so on - is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work:

C.S. Lewis

#17. My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

Yann Martel

#18. Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its thrills cheaply, but rather an understated affair that must be courted if its to be loved.

Kenneth Turan

#19. It Hurts ... It Kills ... It Teaches ...
It Thrills ... "IT" Is LIFE ... !

Sujit Lalwani

#20. You always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

#21. Nothing thrills me more than to be good at something. It's very rewarding, and I feel grateful and blessed, and I never take it for granted.

Jane Elliot

#22. My job defines me, amuses me, thrills me and makes me feel like I am making a difference.

Kathryn Primm

#23. I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

Gale Sayers

#24. Sexual thrills are not all physical, and although Parlabane was an unlikely seducer, even on the intellectual plane, it was clear that his desire was, by this prolonged tickling, to bring me to an orgasm of the mind.

Robertson Davies

#25. That said, wow. This book is just so full of nasty and kinky encounters and voyeuristic thrills that it blew me away.
Sylvia Storm E Read Erotica Reviews

Sasha Holden

#26. There are young men who want thrills but no longer value sex, so they do completely different things, including aggressive things.

Volkmar Sigusch

#27. Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and Spills in Aeronautics'; but I keep this type of title as a last & mercenary resort.

Louis MacNeice

#28. The revelation of Christ, for which our souls thirst, thrills us increasingly as we more clearly understand who He is in all His fullness and what He accomplished to reconcile us to Himself.

Dave Hunt

#29. Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too.

Lee Child

#30. 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

Harlan Coben

#31. The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

J.I. Packer

#32. With the spring a sort of inspiration is wakened in the most prosaic of us. The same spirit of change that thrills the saplings with fresh vitality sends through human veins a creeping ecstasy of new life.

Marah Ellis Ryan

#33. 'Shortly Thereafter' chronicles all the aspects of an Afghanistan deployment, from the terrors of the unknown that await before leaving, to the perverse thrills and adrenaline rushes found in combat, to the return home to a land and a people now more foreign than the war itself was.

Matt Gallagher

#34. In the end things must be as they are and have always been
the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#35. Whatever thrills you, anything you love to do, just say - Someday, I will.

Jimmy Buffett

#36. Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#37. But we have to get our thrills somewhere. Some men have a weakness for fast women. I have a soft spot for eighty-year-old heretics who buy me pancakes and root beer.

Philip Gulley

#38. In this ever changing world, there are few things that have remained constant for me. The chance of hooking a nice trout still excites and thrills me to this day ... just as it did when I was a kid. I like that!

M.A. Bookout

#39. I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.

Scott Foley

#40. The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?

C.S. Lewis

#41. Deuki Hong and Matt Rodbard have given us a deep and important look at the people, places and cuisine that are reshaping what we want for dinner. Koreatown thrills with flavors that will change your life.

Anthony Bourdain

#42. A young man's passion, a jaded siren's last chance for love, a world gone mad, cheap thrills, fast cars, expensive wines, the triumph of victory, the overthrow of ontologically incipient hegemony, and gum! I have no idea if this book has any of them! But I liked the part about the bunny.

Esther M. Friesner

#43. But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?

Jodi Picoult

#44. I'm not a great one for classic horror or cheap thrills.

Clive Owen

#45. Overwhelms you with tingling excitement give you pleasure because of internal molecules. Some researchers believe that thrills occur when molecules called endorphins are released. A drug called naloxone blocks those molecules and prevents music from inspiring

Robert E. Svoboda

#46. Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work, but Peterson pulls it off. For readers who want nonstop action infused with powerful, life-changing themes, North! Or Be Eaten is a must-read.

Wayne Thomas Batson

#47. Spite, financial gain, thrills, emotional satisfaction. Murder always offered a reward. Why else would it remain so popular?

J.D. Robb

#48. Following Jesus is not a perfect life of nonstop thrills. There are some boring and bad parts. But still there's something different about them, simply because I'm following Jesus.

Vince Antonucci

#49. Let the thrill go - let it die away - go on through that period of death into the quieter interest and happiness that follow - and you will find you are living in a world of new thrills all the time.

C.S. Lewis

#50. The song which thrills to heaven, and seeks to emulate seraphic strains, hath human discords in it. The prayer which moves the arm of God is still a bruised and battered prayer

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#51. Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil itself, Killarney Clary's new book-her best to date-dwells, plumbs, persuades and thrills.

Jorie Graham

#52. Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.

W.P. Kinsella

#53. I fight the grin that's trying to surface. For all his sweet words and aw shucks smiles, Tucker really is an alpha fucker. I don't know why that thrills me so much, but it does.

Elle Kennedy

#54. Thank you," she murmured, hoping he knew it wasn't just for helping her up the tree and through the window. Hoping he knew it was for everything. The thrills, the laughs, the secrets he'd shared.

Marissa Meyer

#55. I'm not an adrenaline junkie. It's never been about thrills for me. I'm just someone who loves a challenge.

Felix Baumgartner

#56. I can't recall a story that played out exactly as I'd expected it to. That's one of the thrills of journalism - being surprised, and learning new stuff, but it also poses the biggest challenge to a writer's character.

Dave Barry

#57. Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.

Ashwin Sanghi

#58. That's opera! I just love it. It just thrills me! And it's very different than theatre, and sometimes it can be frustrating because when you come in the first day of rehearsals obviously you're an opera fan, right?

Jason Graae

#59. Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing well in school was clearly a good thing. But comics were more like candy, just flashy wrappers without any nourishment. Cheap thrills.

Michael Dirda

#60. It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it.

Chris Hadfield

#61. Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down ... The writing is superb.

Elmer Kelton

#62. Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.

Ronnie Lott

#63. as our lives become less and less genuine, we require bigger and bigger thrills to scare us, for just a moment, into feeling human again.

Johnny Truant

#64. It is okay to date and experience all the excitement, thrills, and passion that romance offers, but let the love of your life be yourself.

Jenna Alatari

#65. HOBBES:
Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

Bill Watterson

#66. The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

Bliss Carman

#67. One of the thrills of playing at the top tennis centres of the world is to see the Indian flag go up whenever I'm participating in these events. That's enough motivation for any Indian who has the opportunity to perform at these tournaments.

Sania Mirza

#68. Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

David Mamet

#69. Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

Alexandra Roach

#70. Today's youngsters will unfortunately never know the thrills we experienced dubbing movies in the era of Rashomon.

Teruyo Nogami

#71. I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men on nights such as these.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#72. Imagine that you traveled all over the world, looking for happiness, looking for thrills to pass the time. Imagine seeing everything there is to see and still not finding happiness. Well, that would give you a very bleak outlook on life, would it not?

Tricia Levenseller

#73. Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.

Philip Larkin

#74. There's a lot of common ground between criminals and cops. Both savor power, thrills, control. The good cops know they're only a step or two away from the crooks they're arresting.

Nanci Rathbun

#75. Spanish rain,
A maiden's dress,
Apothecary pills
And ancient thrills;
Melancholy kills
A girl's caress.

Roman Payne

#76. The nights in Billancourt were soft and sweet, enlivened now and again by those childish airplane or zeppelin alarms which provided the civilian population with thrills and self-justification.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#77. They want dancing girls! They want thrills! They want elephants! They want people falling off roofs! They want dreams! The world is full of little people with big dreams!

Terry Pratchett

#78. You know, one of the biggest thrills that I have is when famous people recognize me from "Taxi." When I was working with George C. Scott on "The Titanic," he knew every episode. He would quote lines from it ...

Marilu Henner

#79. They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.

Derek Jacobi

#80. For me, one of the biggest thrills is going to a theater and going, "Oh, I got a laugh!" Because you never quite get to hear it [otherwise].

Jeremy Irvine

#81. Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume ... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.

Sara Genn

#82. When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.

John Vianney

#83. One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.

Marlo Thomas

#84. God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.

Joaquin Miller

#85. Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.

Will Durant

#86. Suzanne likes thrills, but she hates being uncomfortable.

Agatha Christie

#87. That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.

Bellamy Young

#88. One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

Paul McCartney

#89. What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

Marianne Wiggins

#90. Here's something I still can't get over. Amazes and thrills me every time. I'm sitting here and want a certain book. So I search, click, and then I have the book. Every time, my heart does a little leap of joy. What a beautiful world the market is making.

Jeffrey Tucker

#91. The thrills, the turmoil, the passion, the stunning surprises of that roller coaster ride in '72 caused our emotions to run wild

Harry Sinden

#92. I love working. It's one of the real thrills of my life.

Meredith Salenger

#93. A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.

Edwin Land

#94. Viewed in abstractions, love is the same thing for everybody. It thrills the same way, and devastates with bloodless efficiency.

Craig Lancaster

#95. These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

Allan Bloom

#96. The people who run Hollywood are supposed to be masters at creating drama, suspense, thrills - at putting on a great show. If we knew not only who the winners were but also by how much they won, the Oscar show could actually be the Super Bowl of movies.

Richard Corliss

#97. The silence rings - it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible - I hear the unspeakable.

Henry David Thoreau

#98. The human mind thrills at few things so much as making connections. Discovering. Solving.

Graham Moore

#99. The world will tell you how to live, if you let it. Don't let it. Take up your space. Raise your voice. Sing your song. This is your chance to make or remake a life that thrills you.

Shauna Niequist

#100. [As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.

Billy Graham