Best 294 quotes in «excitement quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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.

But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!

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.

Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one!

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.

Creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.

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.

Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.

Engage your life with enthusiasm; grasp your life aggressively and squeeze from it every drop of excitement, satisfaction, and joy.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

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.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

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

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.

He closed his eyes, dropping his forehead against hers. “You’ll be the death of me, Elena.” She smiled. “You need a little excitement in that boring old life of yours.

For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.

Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction.

He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

I always felt that's why people buy records anyhow is because they get that vicarious excitement and thrill that they don't get unless they buy your record.

I bring excitement on the sets. I'm an exciting actor, overrated, exaggerated. But I'm not an unexciting actor. I excite people. I never lose hope. If I feel that a film is going wrong somewhere, I do even better.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

I didnt wear the pink panties because I didnt want America going crazy with excitement.

I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.

I don't feel [the] excitement you have when you first walk into a recording studio. It now feels like a tool.

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.

I don't trade for excitement; I trade to win

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.

I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired.

If Obama needs to be criticized, I will criticize him. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about him. And a corollary of that is, as we're learning, from newspapers and magazines that are going into overdrive reprinting Obama editions, etc.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

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.

I follow my instincts and my excitement.

If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.