Quotes About Thrill

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

Snowboarding is like driving a car. When things are all right, you're on it. But when things go wrong, it goes really, really bad really fast.

At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.

The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...

Together we raced into the jungle, leaving Justin Bieber far behind.

It was exciting at first... Then it became routine. I guess everything does, even if it's dangerous.

She had been like a roller coaster aficionado for whom tame county fair roller coasters were as good as the ones that spun you upside down and dropped you so fast your eyes turned red. It was all just a ride.

Lyra's mind was full of dark questions that flew around like witches, swift and untouchable, and somewhere, just beyond where she could reach, there was a glory and a thrill which she didn't understand at all. But it gave her a surge of strength

Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

there was still the thrill of those opening credits that carried us through the harder times, that sustained our faith in a city that often didn't show much faith in us.

A shiver I've never felt.

I am the furthest thing from a do-gooder. I am venal and flib and too clever by half, I know, but the thrill of the most brilliantly quicksilver aperÒ«u is no match for the self-interested high I get from having done someone a good turn. You'd think I'd do more good turns as a result, but there you go.

or unsafe sex with strangers?

Then one day you wake up normal, restored to health—a miracle. At first you're incredibly grateful—your appetite's back, and your energy level. There's a bit of you, though, that misses the razor's edge, the terrible thrill that at any moment you might lose control fo yourself and finally know what total disgrace feels like.

We can only guess at the thrill in Douglass's heart, knowing that the cause he had so long pleaded—a sanctioned war to destroy slavery and potentially to reinvent the American republic around the principle of racial equality—might now come to fruition.

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

And drunk men take dares like they take breaths.