Quotes About Thrill

I had learned from my own father that it was almost blasphemy to regard the function of art as merely to reproduce some kind of a sensible pleasure or, at best, to stir up the emotions to a transitory thrill. I had always understood that art was contemplation, and that it involved the action of the highest faculties of man.

You can't walk the last hundred yards, too marshy-mushy. Not that you'd want to. Gator country. Snap, Snap.

When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!

Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

Grand Prix racer Jochen Rindt said simply that when he's racing, "You ignore everything and just concentrate. You forget about the rest of the world and become part of the car and track. It's a very special feeling. You're completely out of this world and completely into it. There's nothing like it.

Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.

Oh, sure, I've come close to dying a few times, but usually I was having so much fun at the time that I barely noticed the danger.

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now & then, but every turn of the card & cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive.

If there is ever a choice between money and adventure, choose adventure.

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

Truly living required risk.

Lord Kane beat me up," one said with a grin. There was blood on his teeth. "Did you see?" "Best. Night. Ever.

You try almost dying, being chased, then hopping in a car with a complete (horny) stranger.

Jump. "Not yet." A few more seconds of anticipation, of knowing most of his bones would shatter on contact. He grinned at the thought. The razor-sharp bone shards would cut his injured, swollen organs and those organs would burst like water balloons; his skin would rip from the excess fluid and this time the lifeblood that drained would be his own. Agony, such blissful agony, would consume him. For a little while, anyway.

Nothin' bucks like a bull . . . rider.

I was totally psyched. I heard if you sit in the front row at a Knicks game, the players will, like, actually sweat on you. That would be SO sweet. Ed. Note: NO IT WOULDN'T (eeeew)

Voluptatea suprem? o cunosc numai cutez?torii care se cat?r? pe stânci sfidând abisul.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out.

It's a lovely day and we're under siege. People are trying to murder us. Her eyes shone with excitement. Isn't it marvelous?

Besides, it's been almost two weeks since anyone was brutally murdered. Things were getting a bit dull. We wouldn't want to die of boredom, would we?

And she shivered with a dazzled joy.

Hi. I'm on the run from the FBI, Interpol, and a Las Vegas criminal gang," I announced bluntly, to avoid any misunderstandings. "Congratulations," he said.

I've never done a zip wire. I'm a scaredy-cat.