Quotes About Thrill

Some of the best experiences are the most unexpected ones.

Fast cars are my only vice.

There is nothing like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

Flying Motorcycle

200 miles per hour

The detective story is the sonnet. It is precise, neat, satisfyingly symmetrical, constrained, but sustained, by the nicety of its form… The thriller is the ode. It has no formal rules at all. It has no precise framework. It has no top and, Heaven knows, no bottom.

Performing makes me feel alive

But the danger added to the thrill. It was a long shot: perhaps the police would get to the ring first. Perhaps the ring was a fake all along. Perhaps no one would ever find it. But there was a chance, a real chance, that Isildur might end up the owner of the actual ring that had inspired The Lord of the Rings, that had been carried to Iceland by his namesake a thousand years before.

The SUV was the only car moving. Josh had his foot pressed flat to the floor, and the needle on the speedometer hovered close to eighty. He was becoming more comfortable with the controls—he hadn't hit anything for at least a minute.

A line of perspiration slipped down my spine like a waterslide at an unamusement park.

I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger.

i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

Some things were worth the dance with danger.

Your father and Nikita. Man likes to live dangerously." Faith

You should always play with and not according to the rules, he says, because a life with no danger in it is not a life.

I smiled. Arthur was glowing like…if not a kid in a candy store, then one in a museum's gift store with a hundred-dollar voucher.

There is a joy in danger.

Stand still in the psychological state defined as your objective until you feel the thrill of Victory. Then, with confidence born of the knowledge of this law, watch the physical realisation of your objective.

Excitement is the product of facing something dangerous.

I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.

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