Excitement Quotes

“I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and could be.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“You're a little bit of a show-off. First you get us out of hell. And then you defeat like the biggest, baddest Watcher on the books, and then you go on a high-speed, very high-altitude chase, and then you resuscitate the dead. Are you done? Because seriously, I don't know if I can take any more excitement.”
― Cynthia Hand, Boundless

“I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying. One of my basic goals is to subject my nervous system to as little total terror as possible. The cruel paradox of course is that this kind of makeup usually goes hand in hand with a delicate nervous system that's extremely easy to terrify.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

“Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

“Your life should consist of more than commuting, working, eating, surfing the Internet, sleeping and watching TV. Your life should be filled with purpose-driven experiences and projects that bring excitement, passion, energy, and authentic meaning and joy into your life.”
― Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

“It was the sexual chemistry I wanted more of. It was electric. I'd forgotten what it was like to be with someone who excited you in every sense of the word, who thrilled and frightened you in equal measure.”
― Lucy Robinson, The Greatest Love Story of All Time

“All I really want to write about is what happened just before he left. But if I let myself start with that I might forget some of the things which came first. And every word he said is of deepest value to me.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“The truth is -- we are always highly motivated when something means a great deal to us. If I fell into a deep lake and I didn't know how to swim, I would become highly motivated in an instant. Climbing from the lake would mean more to me than anything else in the world. My effort would be no less than astounding and I would suddenly become one of the most excited and enthusiastic persons imaginable.”
― Steve Goodier

“Everyone should see at least one street race before they die.”
― Amanda Lance, Breakdown

“There are many roads in this world that will guide you to pleasurable, fun, and exciting destinations that do not end in any form of lasting happiness. So before you step on an enticing path, figure out where it leads.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.”
― Amit Kalantri

“...everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...”
― John Geddes

“Increasingly, the girl child is becoming an endangered specie as
pedophiles’ continue to roam free in our societies terrorizing
the lives of our children and stripping them of all the joy and
excitement that comes with childhood.”
― Oche Otorkpa, The Unseen Terrorist

“She felt nervy as all her excitements turned into weaknesses”
― Munia Khan

“Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“He was what the egotistical part of me had always longed for: danger, sexiness, popularity, style, unpredictability. The kind of man who'd always keep me guessing. Just one night with him and i'd already started to wonder if perhaps i'd spent the last two years in a comfortable coma.”
― Lucy Robinson, The Greatest Love Story of All Time

“Excitement is impossible where there is no contest.”
― Henry Cabot Lodge

“And then, every time I didn't see her, there was a fall involved. I thought about dancing on the fifth-floor ledge outside out apartment. Every train she wasn't on felt something like hitting the pavement from five floors up. So maybe my father was right about that. Maybe happiness and excitement really are dangerous things.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Chasing Windmills

“I think it's contentment. Where you have everything you ever wanted, all together in one place. It's quieter than excitement, but, [...] maybe it's better.”
― Heather Anastasiu, Override

“Life is a journey; let's enjoy it, seeing some exciting things, and having fun along the way.”
― Ellen J. Barrier

“Happiness is never found in materialistic things; it exists in things that cannot be physically possessed. Therefore, happiness is priceless. It can never be purchased. Love is happiness.”
― Ellen J. Barrier, How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed

“Like a rollercoaster, my mind had climbed its way to the top—only to witness how far there was to fall. And like a coaster, the second the fear hit, my stomach plummeted with the drop.”
― Katherine McIntyre, By the Sea

“I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Twilight Watch

“When excitement and passion are evident, people want to be around you—including prospects. Prospects will want to do business with you because your joy is contagious.”
― Michelle Moore, Selling Simplified

“Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.

[Said after making man's first ascent by hydrogen balloon in 1783]”
― Jacques Charles

“Judging by everyone's excitement, this day will always be remembered at the loading dock as the day 'Larry made it on the internet'.”
― Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York

“The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the merely ordinary fall into much the same pattern, give or take an honorary degree or two, or (in European countries) an honorific order. It could be hardly otherwise. Academics can only seldom lead lives that are spacious or exciting in a worldly sense. They need laboratories or libraries and the company of other academics. Their work is in no way made deeper or more cogent by privation, distress or worldly buffetings. Their private lives may be unhappy, strangely mixed up or comic, but not in ways that tell us anything special about the nature or direction of their work. Academics lie outside the devastation area of the literary convention according to which the lives of artists and men of letters are intrinsically interesting, a source of cultural insight in themselves. If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility; if a historian were to fail (as Ruskin did) to consummate his marriage, we should not suppose that our understanding of historical scholarship had somehow been enriched.”
― Peter B. Medawar

“Happiness is the satisfaction you feel. There's delight, joy, excitement and pleasant surprise.”
― Dee Dee Artner

“I have come to realize that my stupid gestures excites women alot, and if I'm really stupid, i will dare to take them to bed and excite them even more.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The 1789 Revolution had given the French a political script of unequalled drama. For the better part of the following century the temptation to reenact the play was irresistible.”
― Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest