Philip Roth
Novelist
"The horror of being caged has lost its thrill."
Thrill quotes
Thrill
206 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
George Jung
Drug Dealer, Author
"People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that."
Cole Porter
Composer
"I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?"
Philip Johnson
Architect
"I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral."
Bruce Springsteen
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car."
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"Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permission"
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"Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time."
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"For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you."
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"Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware."
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"Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments."
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"I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary."
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"You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it."
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"Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?"
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"If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start."
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"I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film."
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"Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement."
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"You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through."
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"I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable."
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"I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine."
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"There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction."
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"The thrill is to keep envisioning what can be."
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"Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!"
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"At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known."
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"I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music."
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"There's a thrill when you have a hard set, a rugged workout, and you feel it, and you take it, and you go beyond it."
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