Excitement quotes
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The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
-- Alain de Botton -
The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.
-- Amar Bose -
Being onstage and performing, the high of that, and people coming to see you, and getting to make them laugh - that's what gets me hyped up. It's a nervous excitement.
-- Andrew Dice Clay -
Creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.
-- Anni Albers -
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A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.
-- Anni Albers -
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
-- Antony Beevor -
Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
-- Arthur Golden -
Excitement always leads to tears.
-- Arundhati Roy -
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Sometimes it's hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won't happen, but there's excitement at the network, so they'll stay with the show.
-- Beau Bridges -
No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
-- Bernard M. Oliver -
There is an excitement about having nightmares.
-- Betsey Johnson -
The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else
-- Brian May -
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And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.
-- Bruno Schulz -
Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.
-- Chet Williamson -
I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.
-- Chili Davis -
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Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.
-- Chip Conley -
If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.
-- Christa McAuliffe -
We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It's something that I definitely always remember, when I'm playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement.
-- Christina Ricci -
I'm glad I haven't married - I crave excitement.
-- Cynthia Payne -
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
-- Dan Reynolds -
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.
-- Doris Kearns Goodwin -
Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.
-- E. V. Knox -
As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
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I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
-- Eric Burdon -
Football lost its excitement for me.
-- Eric Cantona -
Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.
-- Francois Fenelon -
Fear is excitement without the breath.
-- Frederick Salomon Perls -
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Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.
-- George P. Bush -
To represent the best of Canada is such an honour, it's chilling. There is so much excitement.
-- Hayley Wickenheiser -
The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.
-- Helen Rowland -
. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.
-- Howard Snell -
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In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.
-- Howard Stringer -
Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show.
-- Irene Dunne -
I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
-- Irvine Welsh -
If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.
-- Jacques Audiard -
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There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly,
-- James Cameron -
I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.
-- Jerome Isaac Friedman -
Revival is not just a feeling of excitement of the Lord. We get excited about many things, but excitement is not a revival if God is not the thing that gets us excited.
-- Jerry Falwell -
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Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!
-- Jim Elliot -
Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.
-- Jimmy Carr -
I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.
-- Joe Dante -
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.
-- Johannes Kepler -
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One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.
-- John Hope Franklin -
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking ...
-- John Irving -
Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert
-- June Allyson -
I get bored very easily. I do like excitement.
-- Kierston Wareing -
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Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.
-- Kim Edwards -
I don't trade for excitement; I trade to win
-- Larry Hite -
I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.
-- Louis Zamperini -
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement
-- Lucian Freud -
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The excitement that science possess is its ability to answer the big questions.
-- Lynne McTaggart -
[On the premiere of a dull show:] I've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella.
-- Margaret Whiting -
The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
-- Martin Van Buren -
When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
-- Marvin Minsky -
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The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.
-- Matt de la Pena -
At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.
-- May Sinclair -
Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.
-- Michael Foley -
I've been able to get an excitement back in the water.
-- Michael Phelps -
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Women of the world crave excitement.
-- Nicolas Chamfort -
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story
-- Oliver North -
With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
-- Paul Berg -
The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.
-- Paul D. Boyer -
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Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.
-- Pearl S. Buck -
If we define ***** as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.
-- Philip Slater -
I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.
-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir -
Who knows, I have always lived one day at a time. Probably more adventure and excitement.
-- Rob Mariano -
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The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.
-- Robert R. Shannon -
We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.
-- Robin Ince -
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.
-- Ruth Benedict -
But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.
-- Sarah Chalke -
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I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
-- Sean Penn -
There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
-- Sean Penn -
There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
-- Sidney Sheldon -
You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.
-- Simon Van Booy -
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When you combine the great stories from the comics with the action and visual excitement of the movies, it doesn't get any better!
-- Stan Lee -
Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.
-- Steven Weinberg -
Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.
-- Susan Blackmore -
It's the excitement of being on the frontier.
-- Suzanne Cory -
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Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
-- Thomas Cech -
I was young enough to certainly realize the excitement of how popular 'Seinfeld' was.
-- Tim DeKay -
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.
-- Tim Ferriss -
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I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.
-- Timbaland -
Let's find visual excitement in what nature has to offer.
-- Toni Onley -
It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.
-- Vera Farmiga -
Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
-- Victor Hugo -
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Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.
-- Vincent Price -
Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
-- Vincent Van Gogh -
The highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
-- Warren Beatty -
I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.
-- Wes Anderson -
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Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?
-- William Targ -
Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.
-- Zig Ziglar -
When you're trapped in a small town, the only excitement is the booze.
-- Amy Pietz -
When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh.
-- Andrea Modica -
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As I get older it gets harder and harder to hold on to the ephemeral excitement. When a documentary, or a screenplay, or even just a brainstorming session is going well I get to experience sense of hope, and expansiveness, even if it's just for a moment.
-- Andrew Neel -
Often fear is the same emotion as excitement. It means you are breaking ground.
-- Anya Hindmarch -
I was friends with Salvador Dalà until the day he died. Lucky me. I can't say why. I didn't live to be noticed, I lived to enjoy the excitement of doing right that day, and I knew I was doing it right when they would have me back. That was the thrill for me. I yearned to be validated because my mother was stern and I never did much right, that's how I perceived it.
-- Carmen Dell'Orefice -
I've brought excitement back to the game. I make the game fun.
-- Chad Ochocinco -
