Quotes About Adrenaline

150 miles per hour

She couldn't breathe, couldn't think. Her primal instincts eliminated all extraneous functions not related to her immediate survival.

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.

To feel the threat of some sinister somebody who could fall in step behind him trying to mess him up and take his shit, to feel that and be excited by it.

Se sueltan las ataduras, la timidez, y articulo un discurso fluido y seguro. El tiempo vuela y ni me entero. Solo al final me doy cuenta de que estoy totalmente agotado por la enorme descarga de adrenalina que necesita mi tímido niño interior para soltarse.

We live in a collective adrenaline rush, a world of endless promotional/commercial bullshit, that masks a deep systemic emptiness, the spiritual equivalent of asthma.

So decisive", he murmured in that calm tone that had adrenaline flooding her body, the primitive part of her brain conscious she was in the presence of a predator. "Got your eye on someone?" She didn't know what made her say it. "No. But I have no plans to die a virgin.

Danner strode out of her offices, the adrenaline of rage surging light and hot through her veins. Rage that soon became a kind of exhilaration. She was going to do her job. At last.

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.

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun. I'm enjoying the race.

You learn about fight or flight, but no one ever mentions the third alliterative option - freeze.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.

Our kryptonite is boredom," said Dr. Hallowell. "If stimulation doesn't occur, we create it. We self-medicate with adrenaline.

I'd never felt like this after a fight, though. Usually, I feel energized and cheerful, not sick and scared out of my skin.

Cuz that's it - That's the nasty, nasty secret of war - When yer winning - When yer winning, it's effing thrilling -

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.