“ If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing. ”
- Billie Holiday- Copy
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“ The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. ”
- Henry Moore- Copy
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“ Being asked to host the BAFTA awards is a huge thrill, not to mention a lot easier than sitting in the audience pretending to be pleased for the winners. ”
- Graham Norton- Copy
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“ 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? ”
- Cole Porter- Copy
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“ In all my years on the prowl, I never got over the thrill of hearing the first boom and seeing what it did to a massive block of steel. ”
- Herbert Emerson Wilson- Copy
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“ Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ”
- Franklin Roosevelt- Copy
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“ I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill. ”
- George Burns- Copy
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“ The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving. ”
- William A. Ward- Copy
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“ Out of the chill and the shadow, Into the thrill and the shine; Out of the dearth and the famine, Into the fullness divine. ”
- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster- Copy
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“ Learn to thrill yourself… Make everything bright and beautiful about you. Cultivate a spirit of humor. Enjoy the sunshine. ”
- Baird Spalding- Copy
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“ I have never felt any hesitation in speaking to my congregation about money. I thrill to it. I revel in it. I love to see the liberal enjoy it; I love to watch the stingy suffer. ”
- Clovis G. Chappell- Copy
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“ Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. ”
- Alice Walker- Copy
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“ A building can be designed to satisfy by the month with the regularity of a provider. Or it can give satisfaction in a very different way, by the moment, the fraction of a second, with the thrill of a lover. ”
- Richard Neutra- Copy
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“ There's a dangerous thrill - a rush - in goodness. If you don't keep your wits about you, if you don't have a very sober take on what you're doing and who you're doing it too, you can inadvertently set little fires. The very people you are helping can wind up, emotionally, in worse shape than they were before. ”
- Richard Price- Copy
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“ I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ”
- Nikola Tesla- Copy
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“ The one thing I look for everywhere is beauty. I find it everywhere, and in almost every person. A lovely painting, a good book, or music moves me. It has a life of its own. But I get just as satisfying a thrill when I look at streets wet with rain or see a typist's quick fingers traveling with precision over her keyboard. ”
- Conrad Veidt- Copy
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“ Then I would sing a little in the synagogue. See, if you're a singer, you love to turn your own ears on. You look for those rooms where the reverb is great. I remember the synagogue had a lot of wood and it was a great room. And it was a captive audience and you could sing these minor key songs and make them cry, and that was a thrill. ”
- Art Garfunkel- Copy
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“ With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres… ”
- Laurence Robert Binyon- Copy
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“ There's no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue, there's no joy in merely doing things which any one can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you'd never make. ”
- Spirella- Copy
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“ Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premisis. If I open a cupboard and see, say, 30 cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being-much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
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“ When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls. ”
- Steve Buscemi- Copy
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