
Quoted in Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication (2008) by Tim O'Shei, ISBN 159845076X , p. 5
A collection of quotes on the topic of thrill, life, likeness, people.
Quoted in Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication (2008) by Tim O'Shei, ISBN 159845076X , p. 5
“Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me.”
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
Biography - John Wayne Gacy: Monster in Disguise. A & E Home Video, 2000. Watched March 1, 2010.
Paralyzed, written by Otis Blackwell and Elvis Presley (1956)
Song lyrics
“Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”
The Secret of the Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Goddess of the Sea
An American Peace Policy (1925)
Cate Blanchett, The Missing interview, BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2004/02/16/cate_blanchett_the_missing_interview.shtml,
Online interview at Scientific American online (sciam.com) (26 March 2001)
Robert Burns Woodward, "Art and Science in the Synthesis of Organic Compounds: Retrospect and Prospect," in Pointers and Pathways in Research (Bombay:CIBA of India, 1963).
Unpublished (and probably unsent) letter to the Providence Journal (13 April 1934), quoted in Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy, edited by J. T. Joshi, pp. 115-116
Non-Fiction, Letters
On running the Sydney Theatre Company with husband Andrew Upton. Quoted in: Cate Blanchett: From 'The Hobbit' to latest thriller 'Carol', Static Multimedia http://staticmultimedia.com/movies/%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BCcate-blanchett-from-the-hobbit-to-latest-thriller-carol,
Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 24.
"The Distracted Public" (1990)
It All Adds Up (1994)
Under the Cherry Moon
Song lyrics, Parade Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
As quoted in Details (1993-11).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
Letter to Lillian D. Clark (29 March 1926), quoted in Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 186
Non-Fiction, Letters
Letter to James F. Morton (10 February 1923), published in Selected Letters Vol. I (1965), p. 208
Non-Fiction, Letters, to James Ferdinand Morton, Jr.
On the first moon landing, p. 150.
Strong Opinions (1973)
Context: Oh, "impressed" is not the right word! Treading the soil of the moon gives one, I imagine (or rather my projected self imagines), the most remarkable romantic thrill ever experienced in the history of discovery. Of course, I rented a television set to watch every moment of their marvelous adventure. That gentle little minuet that despite their awkward suits the two men danced with such grace to the tune of lunar gravity was a lovely sight. It was also a moment when a flag means to one more than a flag usually does. I am puzzled and pained by the fact that the English weeklies ignored the absolutely overwhelming excitement of the adventure, the strange sensual exhilaration of palpating those precious pebbles, of seeing our marbled globe in the black sky, of feeling along one's spine the shiver and wonder of it. After all, Englishmen should understand that thrill, they who have been the greatest, the purest explorers. Why then drag in such irrelevant matters as wasted dollars and power politics?
The Inferno (1917), Ch. XVII
Context: Who shall compose the Bible of human desire, the terrible and simple Bible of that which drives us from life to life, the Bible of our doings, our goings, our original fall? Who will dare to tell everything, who will have the genius to see everything?
I believe in a lofty form of poetry, in the work in which beauty will be mingled with beliefs. The more incapable of it I feel myself, the more I believe it to be possible. The sad splendour with which certain memories of mine overwhelm me, shows me that it is possible. Sometimes I myself have been sublime, I myself have been a masterpiece. Sometimes my visions have been mingled with a thrill of evidence so strong and so creative that the whole room has quivered with it like a forest, and there have been moments, in truth, when the silence cried out.
But I have stolen all this, and I have profited by it, thanks to the shamelessness of the truth revealed. At the point in space in which, by accident, I found myself, I had only to open my eyes and to stretch out my mendicant hands to accomplish more than a dream, to accomplish almost a work.
By Hugo Weihe, Christie's International Director of Asian Art and Yamini Mehta quoted in "Raza's painting sold at record price".
“Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
Source: Magic Bites
Source: Magic Burns
“Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours.”
Book 1, Chapter 9
Source: Scaramouche
“You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.”
“I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.”
Source: Solipsist
“I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.”
CNN interview (2002)
Context: I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is — the way God has given it to me was just a platter — a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.
“You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.”
"I Get a Kick Out of You"
Anything Goes (1934)
Source: The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter
“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”
Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 11 (p. 104)
1970 and later
Source: Eric Maisel, Ann Maisel (2010) Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions. p. 95
Oxford Book of English Verse, Introduction
Speech to California delegates to the Republican National Convention (17 August 1988)
Source: 1940s, I is Style (2000), p. 47 : in a letter to Käthe Steinitz (24 June 1945)
Press Statement for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame http://uk.ign.com/articles/2005/11/09/richard-garriott-joins-gaming-hall-of-fame, 9 November, 2005.
On the theme of water.
Music is a Prayer:An interview with Hariprasad Chaurasia by Ian Gottstein
The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
Song I Remember You
Saturday Afternoon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
Source: 2010s, 2010, Decision Points (November 2010), p. 474
Taking It All In (1983), Why Are Movies So Bad? Or, The Numbers (1980-06-23)
page 229.
The God of Small Things (1997)
Variant: It didn't matter that the story had begun, because kathakali discovered long ago that the secrets of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones that you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don't deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don't surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover's skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don't. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.
That is their mystery and their magic.
Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, p. 274
Twilight series, Twilight (2005)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 69.
“Mere grace is not enough: a play should thrill
The hearer's soul, and move it at its will.”
Source: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 175
The Duchess of Cornwall to children
Reading is cool so please find the time, Camilla tells children The Evening Standard 1 March 2012 http://www.standard.co.uk/news/get-london-reading/reading-is-cool-so-please-find-the-time-camilla-tells-children-7498850.html