Roller-coaster Quotes

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)
I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks. View quote
Alan Rickman
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. View quote
Sean Patrick Thomas
I felt I could no longer take the roller-coaster of emotions of travel, its surges of exaltation, its troughs of despondency, it's large stretches of boredom and inconvenience. View quote
Geoff Dyer
I don't want to go to another roller-coaster ride of a movie. If I want that, I'll go to Magic Mountain. I'm really interested in the young directors that are doing different things in cinema. I think the movies people will hold onto are the Rushmores and the Being John Malkoviches. Those are the kind of films I want to do; that's what I'm passionate about. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
"Look,” said Rumfoord, "life for a punctual person is like a roller coaster.” He turned to shiver his hands in her face. "All kinds of things are going to happen to you! Sure,” he said, "I can see the whole roller coaster you're on. And sure-I could give you a piece of paper that would tell you about every dip and turn, warn you about every bogeyman that was going to pop out at you in the tunnels. But that wouldn't help you any.” "I don't see why not,” said Beatrice. "Because you'd still have to take the roller-coaster ride,” said Rumfoord. "I didn't design the roller coaster, I don't own it, and I don't say who rides and who doesn't. I just know what it's shaped like. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
There cannot be Ups in a roller-coaster ride unless there are Downs. View quote
Siddharth Katragadda
To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else. Writing is not a job; it is a lifestyle, and it is a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows. You need self-confidence and an iron carapace. View quote
Virginia Henley
It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride. View quote
Derek Landy
You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled. View quote
Derek Landy
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect. (Etgar Keret)
Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride. View quote
Gary Neville
If you only get one roller-coaster ride, you don't want to be thinking about the second one when you're on it. View quote
Greg Poehler
In today's roller-coaster economy, hyper-competitive, fear-based, flat and global world, convincing anyone to do anything at any time requires getting their attention, creating their intention and turning it to action. View quote
Peter Guber
My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it. View quote
Sara Rue
Lots of people feel more alive when they're riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this might be fun for a while, it can't possibly last. View quote
Tracy McMillan
It's been a roller-coaster ride. But I haven't been diving this well for a while. View quote
Troy Dumais
The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it. View quote
Paulo Coelho
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. View quote
Jennifer Lopez