Thrilling Quotes
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It's been a thrilling journey I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.
— Tori Amos, in Tori Amos puts new spin on old songs for 'Gold Dust'
Gems like these [The Aurora Pyramid of Hope] were not meant to be imprisoned in a dark underground safe for the momentary pleasure of a few eyes. The true value of a collection is sharing it with as many people who are interested to experience nature’s diversity of expression . It’s thrilling to think that the collection will be seen by the 3.6 million visitors that come to the Natural History Museum each year.
— Alan Bronstein, in “Aurora Collection on Display at London's Natural History Museum”
Though it be a thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly sodoubly dynamicto be young, gifted and black.
— Speech to entrants in the United Negro College Fund writers competition. The phrase was later used as the title of her biography Young, Gifted and Black (1969).
This day showed us that we are all completely voyeurs greedy for thrilling entertainment no matter if this is real or not.
uwe boll— Referring to the non-stop television airing of the September 11, 2001 attacks. [1]
They are their own monuments, as is this quietly thrilling sentence.
stanley fish— Chapter 9, Last Sentences, p. 130
Programming with libxml2 is like the thrilling embrace of an exotic stranger.
mark pilgrim— Dive Into Mark, Wednesday, February 18, 2004.
That cold white candent voice which was more caustic than silver nitrate and more thrilling than a scream.
frederick rolfe— Ch. 22, p. 335
There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply…the person who wants to read what I have written.
will self— The Guardian, May 9, 2007. [2]
Children of Men is a solemn, haunting picture, but it's also a thrilling one, partly because of the sheer bravado with which it's made. It left me feeling more fortified than drained. [Director Alfonso] Cuarón, the most openhearted of directors, prefers to give rather than take away.
stephanie zacharek— Review of Children of Men (2006)
How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice.
Edmund White— A Boy's Own Story, Chapter Six (p. 170)
Michael believed longer than the other boys, though they jeered at him; so he was with Wendy when Peter came for her at the end of the first year. She flew away with Peter in the frock she had woven from leaves and berries in the Neverland, and her one fear was that he might notice how short it had become; but he never noticed, he had so much to say about himself. She had looked forward to thrilling talks with him about old times, but new adventures had crowded the old ones from his mind.
j. m. barrie— Ch. 17 (Peter & Wendy (1911))
Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high quality of the original product, it doesn't show a hint of dating. Neither [ Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope nor Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ] were able to match the narrative scope of Empire , which today remains one of the finest and most rousing science fiction tales ever committed to the screen.
james berardinelli— Review of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself", or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
e. m. forster— Ch. 14 (A Passage to India (1924))
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
aldous huxley— Chapter 11 (p. 104)
My soul is full of longing For the secret of the Sea, And the heart of the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— The Secret of the Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no preciser name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.
thomas mann— Herr und Hund (A Man and his Dog) (1918)
The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.
john muir— 1872(?), page 92
And then, while writing, a new and thrilling relationship would spring up under the drive emotion, coalescing and telescoping alien facts into a known and felt truth. That was the deep fun of the job; to feel within my body that I was pushing out to new areas of feeling, strange landmarks of emotion, tramping upon foreign soil, compounding new relationships of perceptions, making new and - until that very split second of time! - unheard-of and unfelt effects with words.
richard wright— p. xxx (Native Son (1940))
That cold white candent voice which was more caustic than silver nitrate and more thrilling than a scream.
— Ch. 22, p. 335 (Hadrian the Seventh (1904))
A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.
ambrose bierce— Ambrose Bierce, A Cynic Looks at Life, 1912.
The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eves Whence is the thrilling magic Of its tunes amongst the leaves? Oh, is it from the waters, Or from the long, tall grass? Or is it from the hollow rocks Through which its breathings pass?
felicia hemans— Felicia Hemans, The Wandering Wind.
You that love England, who have an ear for her music, The slow movement of clouds in benediction, Clear arias of light thrilling over her uplands, Over the chords of summer sustained peacefully.
cecil day lewis— 1933 The Magnetic Mountain, pt.4, no.32.
Thisgoing into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle- aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brusselshotel fora group grope.
— 1975 OnBritain's entry into the EEC, in the SundayTimes, 27 Apr.
