Quotes About Frisson

It is important to understand that in the modern world we prefer the replica to the original because it gives us the greater frisson. I leave that word in French because I think you understand it well that way.

Tell me about the parties. Toward the end. Did anything change?" She laughs, but it's a sarcastic stage bark. "You're talking about the sex magic angle." "Exactly," I lie. "I thought it was silly, but it was the seventies. Anton LaVey was all the rage. Black candles, pentagrams, Aleister Crowley, and pretend sacrifices? They gave the parties a new frisson.

Every sighting of this mystery man yielded a frisson, as if he were my guardian angel keeping tabs on me, followed by a pang of anxiety at the thought that I might never see him again.

The tree laughed like crystal wind chimes. The sound crawled along my nerves and the nape of my neck in an unpleasant frisson.

Was it frisson when you saw a guy smile and it made your heart act all weird?

It's chemical, fancying him is purely chemical. It's intoxicating - the frisson, the attraction - it's intoxicating because it's purely chemical. But you'll just have to remember the wedding ring - divorcees don't wear wedding rings. This guy has his own Vita at home. You're his potential Suzie. Is that who you want to be? Do you want the next man in your life to have Tim's principles?

I always had a frisson when I heard the Champions League music. To play in that competition, to score a goal in it, is something special for me.

the frisson of fear that comes from knowing that you're safe even while the tigers noisily devour your neighbor.

Microsoft is ten times smarter, a hundred times more aggressive, and bound by no particular rules. It gives Randy a little frisson just to imagine Harvard Li's situation: being chased across the planet by Microsoft's state-of-the-art hellhounds.

Le temps semble s'être arrêté… Tu baisses ton profil sublime, Et nous nous penchons vers l'abîme Dans un frisson d'éternité

O imperceptible movements of bodies, you signify, each time, a great philosophical resolution of the shadows : gentle translations, none of the wilfulness of your birth is lost. It is the hour of the frisson which bears an astonishing resemblance to a stroke of black ink. We are delighted to be inkwells.