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Quotes About Adrenaline

It's not about how much money I'm getting paid. It's just a love of one-on-one combat. I feel I'm at home. I love the ring entrances, the talking. I'm the master of it all.
~ Tyson Fury
I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
~ Veronica Roth
I have to sit on the edge of the tub for a minute. As the adrenaline in my system winds down, the holes in my chest and back start to get to me. I have to hold on and breathe for a while until the dizziness passes.
~ Richard Kadrey
Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.
~ Roald Dahl
Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.
~ Roald Dahl
Sebagian besar hal seru yang kita lakukan dalam hidup ini membuat kita takut setengah mati. Hal-hal itu tidak akan seru kalau tidak menakutkan -Danny
~ Roald Dahl
I always get the shakes before a drop.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
This system makes a feedback loop between muscles, adrenaline, the thalamus of the brain, the anus and the larynx. Swelling the body and using the larynx to howl (muscle-flexing and noise) makes up the usual Domination signal among birds, reptiles, mammals and politicians. Study the speeches of Hitler and Ronald Reagan for further details, or just watch two ducks disputing territory in a pond.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
POLLARD CALLED IT the blood tingle. She blasted up the Hollywood Freeway, high-fiving the dashboard and pumping her fist, feeling the electric buzz in her fingers and legs that had always come with making a breakthrough in a case—the blood tingle.
~ Robert Crais
Battle is a frightening thing, a terrible thing, but once you develop a taste for it…nothing else comes close.
~ Robert Ferrigno
If the story is unflattering and the feeling is anger, adrenaline kicks in. Under the influence of adrenaline, blood leaves our brains to help support our genetically engineered response of "fight or flight," and we end up thinking with the brain of a reptile. We say and do dim-witted things.
~ Kerry Patterson
When adrenaline does our thinking for us, our motives flow with the chemical tide.
~ Kerry Patterson
Wayde yelled, and I hit him again, adrenaline pulling a scream of outrage from me. He went quiet, and I held my breath to make sure I could hear him breathing. I suppose I could have used my magic on him, but this was a lot more satisfying.
~ Kim Harrison
That night had been the first time I'd felt alive, the adrenaline and endorphins making my body, still recovering from disease, feel…normal. It was then that I realized I'd risk anything to feel that way all the time—and most days, I did.
~ Kim Harrison
Eight? Was it really eight? Adrenaline or not, this was an insane time to be up. That was humanity's problem right there. They were brain damaged from the early sun.
~ Kim Harrison
Dent recognized it; the intermezzo before the last movement of De Bruik's Human Biology. The finale of the symphony was a standard concert opener in the outer worlds. Soon the crackling of superamplified muscle contractions and the rush of adrenaline into the bloodstream announced the shift to the finale, and the crowd cheered wildly; Dent could feel his blood surging through him—
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Yes, she might have managed to lift the portcullis—with concentration, an unprecedented bout of luck, and the absence of a hangover. Oh, and if she were in mortal danger. Unfortunately, her power was adrenaline-based, making it as infinite as it was uncontrollable. "You think I use magick like mine to open a tomb?" Mari asked in a scoffing tone. Mistress of bluffing, working it here.
~ Kresley Cole
When a guy becomes a husband, he has a responsibility not to take as many chances as when he was single. It's called common sense. You'll depend on me not to get hurt or killed chasing an adrenaline rush.
~ Dee Henderson
Sometimes fear cannot be distinguised from excitement.
~ Deena Metzger
It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride.
~ Derek Landy
As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.
~ Emma Watson
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
~ Mario Andretti
You live more for 5 minutes going fast on a bike than other people do in all of their life.
~ Marco Simoncelli
Live Life a little dangerously
~ J. R. D. Tata