Excitement Quotes - Page 21

• If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation.

  Herbie Brennan

  Healing, Past, Doctors

  4 Copy quote

• I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won.

  Narendra Modi

  Patriotic, India, Politics

  4 Copy quote

• I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in a certain realm of popular cultutre. That gives me great joy and excitement, but I don't go to the media saying, "And I'm also the world's greatest actor."

  John Hodgman

  Wall, Media, Play

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The original WAS a fun film. [Paul] Verhoeven made a couple of 'Robocops' that were so great, too. I think the level of excitement is great and Arnie [Schwarzenegger] was particularly charismatic with that chopped up English, and the size of the man with his confidence and sense of humor.

  Colin Farrell

  Couple, Fun, Men

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss 'Total Recall'". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.

  Andrew Cohen

  Unique, Attachment, Ego

  4 Copy quote

• I think one of the aspects of photography that remains for me is I find the process still frustrating. The counter to that is that it's still very exciting. If you didn't have the frustration, you wouldn't have the excitement. If you didn't have the disappointment, you wouldn't have the magical intoxication of this process working.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Disappointment, Frustration

  4 Copy quote

• Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.

  John Piper

  Life Is Too Short, Fighting, Long

  10 Copy quote

• In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.

  Charles Mackay

  Running, Reading, Mad

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds: Illustrated with numerous engravings. (2 Thle in 1 vol.). I”, p.7

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.

  Charles Mackay

  Age, Peculiar, Gains

  "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds". Book by Charles Mackay, 1841.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can't wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Dream, Disappointment

  7 Copy quote

• For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

  Pam Brown

  White, Waiting, Canvas

  4 Copy quote

• Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.

  Graham Greene

  Fun, Men, Brain

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Brighton rock”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

  Joe Murray

  Memories, Elements, Tables

  5 Copy quote

• Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that builds within you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as the exultation of it. You have to do it.

  Elizabeth George

  Art, Silly, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

  Robert Morgan

  Teaching, Writing, Years

  5 Copy quote

• Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

  Francis Bacon

  Feelings, Special, Emotion

  5 Copy quote

• As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

  Francis Bacon

  Work, Want, Mood

  4 Copy quote

• Players come to Belle Rock's casinos to have fun, find excitement, or play in a safe environment, but no matter what the reason, they all come to win. In February, we want to reward our loyal players by making the chances of winning big that much greater.

  Tim Johnson

  Fun, Player, Winning

  4 Copy quote

• My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.

  John Wesley

  Fire, Supernatural Elements, People

  66 Copy quote

• It's been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who have really done the work. A leader doesnt need any credit... He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway.

  Robert Townsend

  Motivational, Loyalty, People

  19 Copy quote

• I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you understand this huge emotional frustration. You did one feat, then you go back one.

  Audrey Tautou

  Frustration, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.

  Ed Helms

  Vacation, Thailand, Want

  "20Q: Ed Helms". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. May 30, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that's something that always enticed me about the '40s - back then, the glamour and the style - you couldn't really make it up. You just were or you weren't. You either fit in that world or you fit in the other. Things were very cut and dry. Things were simple. There wasn't a whole lot of excess or flash to be flashy; it was real flash, and real excitement.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Real, Cutting, Simple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can use in other ways. I can create with them in my writing and my life, mix them up with excitement and pleasure. I can name that terrible, numbing paralysis and know it will pass.

  Margo Jefferson

  Grief, Writing, Destiny

  Source: www.elle.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

  Ai Weiwei

  Mean, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source