Excitement Quotes - Page 28

• I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

  Shawn Johnson

  Reality, Focus, Joy

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• Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together.

  Stana Katic

  Couple, Believe, Together

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• There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Thinking, Adults, Becoming An Adult

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• For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

  Alicia Keys

  Perfect, Singing, Thrill

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• Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Brother, Book

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• I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

  Ang Lee

  Reading, Book, Way

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• We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going.

  Tom McCall

  Moving, Portland Oregon, Heaven

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• I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, People, Good Movie

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• The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.

  Christine Pelosi

  Husband, Pregnancy, Good Luck

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• I've been able to get an excitement back in the water.

  Michael Phelps

  Water, Able

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• I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Criticism, Literature

  Ezra Pound (1991). “Ezra Pound's Poetry and Prose: 1920-1927, C522-C599a”

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• As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Soccer, Stars, Player

  "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.

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• If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Feelings, President

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there's a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.

  Howard Schultz

  Retail, Entertainment, Electricity

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• There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

  Howard Schultz

  Wind, Safety, Scary

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• a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

  Aidan Chambers

  Hurt, Sadness, Joy

  Aidan Chambers (1987). “Now I know: a novel”, Vintage

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• I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

  Sylvia Plath

  Change, July, Arrows

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.44, Hamilton Books

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• But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Pain, Ideas

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Of Human Bondage”, p.1260, The Floating Press

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• Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Romantic, Sad Love, Art

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• How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?

  Don DeLillo

  Lying

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.55, Pan Macmillan

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• As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit the making of the myth. Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• Yeah. Just keep the live feed going so that I can see it and pretend I’m there, too. (Tory) Yes, my queen. Anything else you’d like? (Geary) A million dollars and Brad Pitt. (Tory) You forgot world peace. (Geary) I’m feeling a bit selfish today. Teenage hormonal overdose, I think. Or just general excitement. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Queens, Teenage, Selfish

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• Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

  James Joyce

  Character, Night, Drug

  James Joyce (2016). “ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)”, p.81, e-artnow

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• If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Love Is, Use

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• Normally if I met a guy who was unemployed and illiterate who hadn't bathed in a couple of weeks, I'd be standing in a puddle with excitement, but I'm sort of in a bad mood tonight, so take this bag and give me the fu**ing paper before I pop your head like a zit. He said, you're a lesbian, aren't you?

  Christopher Moore

  Couple, Giving, Guy

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