Best 294 quotes in «excitement quotes» category

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.

Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.

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.

Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.

And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

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.

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

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

As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.