Roller Coaster Rides Quotes:

There cannot be Ups in a roller-coaster ride unless there are Downs.

- Siddharth Katragadda

source: "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2001.

topic: Roller Coaster, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides

It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.

- Christina Aguilera

topic: People, Giving, Able, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides

The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.

- Vivek Wadhwa

topic: Entrepreneurship, Truth Is, Cruise, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides

I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together.

- Diahann Carroll

topic: Careers, People, Trying, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides

Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.

- Pete Waterman

topic: Likes, Roller Coaster, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides

Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.

- James Patterson

source: "How To Write A Killer Thriller". Interview with AskMan, www.askmen.com.

topic: Book, Thinking, Promise, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides

The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can't quite imagine if you've spent your whole career in a corporation.

- Harvey Mackay

topic: Emotional, Careers, Corporations, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a bit of a roller coaster ride...

- Mark Haddon

source: "The Curiously Irresistible Literary Debut of Mark Haddon". PowellsBooks Interview, www.powells.com. October 10, 2006.

topic: People, Plot, Pages, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides

In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.

- Wallace Shawn

topic: Circles, Different, Goes On, Amusement Parks, Coasters

You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.

- Lowell Ganz

source: "Fictional character: Grandma". "Parenthood", www.imdb.com. 1989.

topic: Grandpa, Sick, Interesting, Rollercoaster, Roller Coaster Rides

Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.

- Mark Hart

source: Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.9, Franciscan Media

topic: Christianity, Roller Coaster, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides, Merry Go Round

Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live there, what others say about you, your failures or successes - these don't send you on a roller coaster ride down or up. It's really the only way to peace. There's no other way to be peaceful except in the true self.

- Richard Rohr

topic: Self, Rocks, Peaceful, Roller Coaster Rides

My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and ending in a sort of super Sophie's Choice. A daring tour de force.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

topic: Children, Real, Two, Panorama, Roller Coaster Rides

Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do to fulfill the audience's expectations, but inside that, you have complete freedom to talk about whatever you want. Who wants to see a movie about gun violence in America and class? But, if you set it in this terrifying, fun, roller coaster ride of a movie, you can talk about whatever you want. That's been the game that genre movies play, when they do it well.

- Ethan Hawke

source: "Ethan Hawke Talks THE PURGE, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says about Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

topic: Fun, Writing, Gun, Complete Freedom, Roller Coaster Rides

Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.

- Roger Crawford

source: Roger Crawford (1999). “How High Can You Bounce?: Turn Setbacks Into Comebacks”, Bantam

topic: Eye, Inevitable Change, Roller Coaster, Roller Coaster Rides

Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.

- Catherine Hardwicke

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Believe, Moments, Nostalgic, Roller Coaster Rides

I never plan anything-life is a roller coaster ride - I just hang on for dear life.

- Marc Morrone

topic: Life Is, Roller Coaster, Coasters, Dear Life, Roller Coaster Rides

Sloppy Firsts perfectly captures the turbulent roller-coaster ride that is being a teenager. This is an (at times) intimate, painfully honest peek at a girl's coming of age. Getting to know Jessica was like meeting a new best friend. I miss her already.

- Atoosa Rubenstein

topic: Girl, Teenager, Missing, Coming Of Age, Being A Teenager

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

- Jennifer Lopez

topic: Real, Lucky, Able, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides

Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years from now, we will have space tourism where you will be able to see the black sky and the curvature of the earth. It will be the most exciting roller coaster ride you can buy.

- Burt Rutan

topic: Future, Simple, Years, Space Tourism, Roller Coaster Rides

You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled.

- Derek Landy

topic: Book, Reading, White, Roller Coaster Rides

My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared and really excited. You don't know what's coming next but you know it's going to be good. You can't handle it, go on the carousel

- Gina Gershon

topic: Goes On, Next, Scared, Carousels, Coasters

We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.

- Robert M. Sapolsky

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Stress, Hate, Scary, Good Money, Roller Coaster Rides

General anxiety is the bridge between the manic joys of creation, exploration, new revelations, professional acceptance and reward, and the depression of self-critique, professional rejection and stagnation. All are part of the roller coaster ride of an artist's life.

- Oliver $

topic: Acceptance, Artist, Self, Stagnation, Roller Coaster Rides

When your life is not in balance and you're struggling to achieve stability, practicing observation without judgment gets really interesting, and very useful. How? Because you can learn to distance yourself from the roller coaster ride of your emotions and circumstances but still enjoy the ride of life.

- Tara Stiles

source: Tara Stiles (2012). “Yoga Cures (Enhanced Edition): Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free”, p.34, Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony

topic: Distance, Struggle, Interesting, Roller Coaster Rides

Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up the mountain. You're headed toward Yosemite more than 4,000 feet of pounding the pedals. You are aware of every movement because your thighs feel tender with a sensation of pain. You push on, toward the final ascent into the valley. In front of you is a monster mountain-El Capitan. Your eyes grow wide. You take a deep breath. Suddenly, you feel only wonder.

- Frosty Wooldridge

topic: Travel, Pain, Eye, Yosemite, Pedals

Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it.

- Patti Smith

source: "Patti Smith: Advice to the Young". Interview with Christian Lund, the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, August 24, 2012.

topic: Successful, Names, Perfect, Perfect Moments, Roller Coaster Rides

The thrills, the turmoil, the passion, the stunning surprises of that roller coaster ride in '72 caused our emotions to run wild

- Harry Sinden

topic: Running, Passion, Emotion, Roller Coaster Rides

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

- Sean Patrick Thomas

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Night, Play, Actors, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.

- Jackie Collins

source: Jackie Collins (2013). “Lucky”, p.524, Chances Inc.

topic: Crazy, Fall, Heart, Falling For You, I Fall In Love

I'll be honest with you: love is not always what we think it is. It is a roller coaster ride going through this, and it's beautiful at the same time.

- LaToya Jackson

topic: Beautiful, Love Is, Thinking, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides

I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone that battles some kind of addiction.

- Ruby Gettinger

topic: Emotional, Addiction, Battle, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides

I think the thing that made this stand out the most was just the fact that there's a lot more character to these characters. We see their back stories and we see their present situations, and that was a lot more interesting than just the regular procedural with four heads standing around a body, spelling it out for you. It's a lot more of a roller coaster ride.

- Angie Harmon

source: "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

topic: Present Situation, Roller Coaster Rides

My best career moments have come being a fan first. Because that's why we love sports, and that's why I got into sports - those highs and lows on that roller coaster ride that I don't want to get off - because I enjoy the highs as much as I enjoy the lows. The highs are even better when you experience the lows, and that can apply when rooting for your favorite sports team or your career. It's also important not to get too high or too low, and it's also important not to listen to the noise. You just have to do it for you in those career moments because they're gonna come.

- Linda Cohn

topic: Sports, Team, Careers, Highs And Lows, Roller Coaster Rides

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

- Ace Frehley

topic: Guitar, Land, Play, Roller Coaster Rides

With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride that's both scary and exciting at the same time - the rise and fall of which defines our journey.

- SebastiAn

topic: Fall, Journey, Heartache, Roller Coaster Rides, Sand Dollar

It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride.

- Derek Landy

topic: White, Knuckles, Roller Coaster, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides