Top 202 Thrill Quotes

Mumbai is like Manhattan. There’s a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

I spend all day thinking of shopping. I love the thrill of finding that wonderful, perfect thing, the feeling of your heart racing because it’s so right.

You don’t get the accolades unless you win. It took me a while to understand. No one will remember how Kenny Smith played in Game 1 unless we win the series. The thrill is in winning.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.

Yes, I mean, There’s nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there’s also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it’s over.

I just felt that I might to go to university and get some real life. It wasn’t stimulating in the same way. I loved being at Bristol, but I missed the thrill of being on set.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

I don’t have a favorite fruit. There are things that thrill me each turn of the season.

I’m sure a lot of players say it, but winning is almost so you don’t lose. The thrill of winning is not as great as the pain of losing.

As a composer, it is a great thrill for me to have an album in the top 15 of the pop charts.

I get a tremendous thrill out of speaking about Jesus and what He has done for me.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is ‘Jaws.’

You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team – I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill.

The biggest thrill wasn’t in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.

I love the thrill of putting on a record and feeling like you got the wrong one from the factory.

My biggest thrill in life is to read in the afternoon until I fall asleep and take a nap.

The thrill of winning or losing, or getting on the field and coaching on Saturday afternoons, that’s all great. But it’s the association with the players, and that’s lifelong. That is the one thing you miss and you can’t substitute for it.

Theatre gives you an altogether different kind of thrill which every actor who wants to grow must try.

I say to you, you want a thrill, volunteer to be an umpire. I’d like you to go just work the bases some day. Just go do that. You’re going to love it. Try the slow-pitch stuff. You’ll love it. Ask my son – he tried it! He said, ‘I’ve never seen so many idiots in all my life.’

It’s all about escapism. That’s essentially what all movies are about. It’s a vicarious thrill.

I once had a gig in Gothenburg and went on the most unbelievable theme park ride, which was a rollercoaster built into a mountain that went through plants and tunnels. It was huge and a thrill to go on.

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you – the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it’s also a thrill. That’s what I found weird.

I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill.

And I admit it: there’s a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you’ve written.

Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you’re inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.

When I’m working with Red One, we all have to do everything, from making sets and costumes to tearing tickets. Forget about craft services! So when I get on a film set, it’s a thrill to be just working as an actor.

I don’t get too much enjoyment out of sitting around the campfire and looking at old photos. That’s just not me. I don’t get the thrill of doing that. So, I don’t sit around listening to my old records.

I’m not a thrill seeker.

The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.

It’s just a real thrill when you’re showing somebody a chord progression or something, and you see that light come on, you know. You see ’em ‘get it.’

As if we didn’t have enough fabulous actresses, it’s a thrill to be joined by Wales’s finest, Eve Myles. Having worked together on ‘Torchwood,’ it’s a joy to be able to welcome her to ‘Broadchurch.’

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I’ve ever had.

I don’t know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don’t know which one affects me most. I don’t know where the middle is.

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

I have the ’77 Million Paintings’ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‘God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!’ And that’s a real thrill.

The thrill of science is the process. It’s a social process. It’s a process of collective discovery. It’s debate, it’s experimentation and it’s verification of claims that might be false. It’s the greatest foundation for a society.

I don’t think there’s any thrill in the world like doing work you’re good at.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

I myself was born beside a river – the Avon in Sarum. So when I first encountered New York’s great harbor and the Hudson River as a teenager, and came to understand their historic canal and railroad links to the vast spaces of the Midwest, I felt both the thrill of a new adventure and a deep sense of homecoming.

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

The thrill of autograph collecting is getting close to a world you’re not part of.

Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way, and you know you’re not quite there, and you’re redoing it and redoing it, and there’s a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard. It’s a job of tremendous anxiety for me.

I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer – not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

I’ve been lucky enough to do this fantastic job now for more than 50 years. To make people laugh, to entertain, create a wide range of emotions – it has always been a tremendous thrill for me, and it still is.

Despite all the Internet has done to make prices transparent and bibliographic information universal, you can still find – at book sales and thrift shops, auctions and even fancy dealers – unrecognized or underpriced rarities. Getting something valuable for cheap is the basic, greedy thrill of book collecting.

A lot of music doesn’t do one thing or another. It just doesn’t do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It’s such a wide range, and it’s really interesting that we all love different things.

Television is the original social network. Consumers love great television, but they also love talking about television. Sharing with friends the thrill of the last episode, debating what will happen next, working to enlist friends to watch the same shows that you love.

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.