#thrills

As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting. ↗

— Doug Collins

#basketball #bills #broadcasting #care #coaching

I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps. ↗

— Scott Foley

#being scared #every #girlfriend #hand #her

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy. ↗

— Rita Wilson

#be happy #get #going #happy #i

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#famous #famous people #i #know #me

The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game – and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands. ↗

— Jennifer Birkett

#corpse #corruption #mask #seduction #squalor

Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#secrets #thrills #faith

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#money #riches #thrills

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#books #caught #ever #forgiven #forgiveness

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

— David Mamet

#carnival #degenerated #drama #films #offer

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it? ↗

— Yann Martel

#dances #each #every #i #i write