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Quotes About Thrill

want your obedience. I expect it—no, I demand it. I don't relish nor will I enjoy the idea of punishing you. So if you seek to bait me so that you enjoy the thrill of discipline, you're sure to be disappointed.
~ Maya Banks
And the truth is, I'd felt kind of a thrill about wearing Jason's Big Boy pants. I was a sick kid, even way back then.
~ Meg Cabot
As hard as it is to date someone with nineteenth-century manners-seriously, it's getting to a point where I spend so much time swimming laps in the campus pool to work off my sexual frustration, my highlights are becoming brassy-I still feel a thrill every time Jesse calls me Susannah. He thinks the name everyone else calls me-Suze-is too short and ugly for someone of my strength and beauty.
~ Meg Cabot
A little danger adds spice to life.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Oh! Yes! Please!" she breathed. What followed was definitely the best day of Suki's life.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
~ Bear Grylls
I breathed in the night air that was or was not laced with anachronistic blossoms and felt the small thrill I always felt to a lesser or greater degree when I looked at Manhattan's skyline and the innumerable illuminated windows and the liquid sapphire and ruby of traffic on the FDR Drive and the present absence of the towers.
~ Ben Lerner
A life too full of excitement is an exhausting life, in which continually stronger stimuli are needed to give the thrill that has come to be thought an essential part of pleasure.
~ Bertrand Russell
But although the world was happy, some savour had gone out of life, since safety had been preferred to adventure.
~ Bertrand Russell
Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.
~ Nicolas Cage
On the adrenaline level, the excitement from landing a jump and hooking a big bass are similar.
~ Scotty Lago
It's fun to horse around with danger.
~ Sue Grafton
When everything else is boring, there's something to be said for risk.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved; the thrill of marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day - and year - that passes is a triumph of this act of loving.
~ Susan Waggoner
We talked for almost an hour, and then I received one of the greatest thrills of my life. This man who was my father, this man who knew me too well for me to pull the wool over his eyes, looked at me and said, "Son, if God can do in my life what I've seen him do in yours, then I want to give him the opportunity. I want to trust him as my Savior and Lord." I cannot imagine a greater miracle.
~ Josh McDowell
Each loss was a lesson, each win a thrill. Every day pieces of the puzzle fell together. Whenever
~ Josh Waitzkin
His badness thrilled and amazed me.
~ Joyce Maynard
It was as if her insides were light-headed. And her heart was not beating quite properly. It wasn't racing, and it wasn't pounding … It was dancing. Singing.
~ Julia Quinn
I'm a huge 'Indiana Jones' fan.
~ Dylan O'Brien
'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.
~ Kim Jee-woon
As a professional climber, that's the question you always get: Why, why, why? It's an ineffable thing; you can't describe it.
~ Jimmy Chin
I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.
~ Colin Trevorrow
Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.
~ Ewan McGregor
I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
~ Famke Janssen