#thrills

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

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#down #guitar #happen #just #make

I'm not a great one for classic horror or cheap thrills. ↗

— Clive Owen

#classic #great #horror #i #thrills

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

— Alexandra Roach

#me #opposite #polar #scare #thrills

They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#been #closed #did #doors #everything

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills. ↗

— Gale Sayers

#had #i #lot #short #thrills

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

#love #thrills #love

Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches. ↗

— Ronnie Lott

#best #bigger #biggest #biggest challenge #challenge

Unfortunately they failed to appreciate the best part of you, preferring to lose themselves in the labyrinth of your grosser illusions. Didn't I show our well-behaved audience an angelized version of you? And you saw their reaction. They were bored and just sat in their seats like a bunch of stiffs. Of course, what can you expect? They wanted the death stuff, the pain stuff. All that flashy junk. They wanted cartwheels of agonized passion; somersaults into fires of doom; nosedives, if you will, into the frenzied pageant of vulnerable flesh. They wanted a tangible thrill. ("Drink To Me Only With Labyrinthine Eyes") ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

#sadism #sensation #spectacle #thrills #death