#thrill

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer. ↗

— David Frum

#someone #thrilling #ultimately #wants #who

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#brits #case #down #german #just

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#fresh #give #give me #i #ideas

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#audience #bit #greatest #i #live

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ↗

— David Mamet

#carnival #degenerated #drama #films #offer

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#bite #could #criminal #curiosity #even

I'm not thrilled that I have a tramp stamp. When you see people bend over in their really low-cut jeans, I'm like, 'Oh... that's what I have.' ↗

— Katherine Moennig

#i #jeans #like #oh #over

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#bad #bad review #criticism #crushing #either

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back! ↗

— Dan Quayle

#because #challenge #forward #go #going

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite. ↗

— Alexandra Roach

#me #opposite #polar #scare #thrills