Quotes About Thrill

Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.

Honestly, you could beat me, torture me - just don't bore me.

We were diving in caves. It wasn't totally safe.

Tesla was never one to chase recognition—he was after the pure thrill of discovery and creation. His imagination was a factory with unlimited resources, and the world an exciting playground with unlimited possibilities. He was excited to see men like Rontgen pioneer new fields of understanding, and was happy that his work contributed to the rise of other great men.

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

Rich people don't have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are ornaments, their 'work' is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention.

If you can't have a little fun when you're carrying out an assassination, then what's the point?

I´m live! Omigod, I´m live [...]

I recognize the fog in the air, the shining of her dark hair that curls around a finger like a night wood shaving, I know her thrill and fear of being observed

My greatest thrill? That's easy. It came the day Mr. McGraw named his 20 all-time players. I'm ninth on that list and that is thrill enough to last me a lifetime.

It's a buzz every time you perform under pressure.

People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

Time for some thrillin' heroics.

Emilio] felt once more the strangely visceral thrill of trying to disprove a hypothesis he suspected was robust.

For Ben, watching the bad guys blow up buildings and try to shoot down airliners just never got old.

The witchery of living is my whole conversation with you, my darlings. All I can tell you is what I know. Look, and look again. This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes. It's more than bones. It's more than the delicate wrist with its personal pulse. It's more than the beating of the single heart. It's praising. It's giving until the giving feels like receiving. You have a life—just imagine that! You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another.

Weightlessness is like heroin, or how I imagine heroin must be. You try it once, and when it's over, all you can think about is how much you want to do it again. But apparently the thrill wears off.

Right there in the middle of the road he took the cigarette out of my mouth and put it in his, then struck a match on his thumbnail and lit the two of them together, exactly like Humphrey Bogart. Then, ever so gently, he put the lit cigarette back in my lips. It seemed almost like we had kissed. Chills ran down my back, but I couldn't tell for sure if it was thrill chills or the creeps. Sometimes it is very hard to know the difference.

Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports, the rest are merely games.

He and Sully dared each other to go on the Wild Mouse and finally went together, howling deliriously as their car plunged into each dip, simultaneously sure that they were going to live forever and die immediately.

excitement.

Once danger becomes its own reward, risk moves from a threat to be avoided to a challenge to be risen toward.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.