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Quotes About Exhilarating

My favorite experience, in general, probably was the 'Little Shop' experience, which probably was terrifying, frustrating, and exhilarating and amazing, but because it was the first, that was the one where I watched the show just launch itself for the first time and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going to have a career.'
~ Alan Menken
It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
~ Taylor Swift
My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating.
~ Sylvia Earle
I owe so much to Shakespeare. Nothing is more humbling and more exhilarating than taking ahold of those sacred words and riding them like a wave.
~ Carrie Preston
A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
~ William Styron
Life was curiously exhausting but also exhilarating.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Clearly, she was enjoying herself to see that woman hurt. It was nothing she had desired. Nor did it seem as if she could control it, this inhuman sweet sensation to see another human being squirming. It hit her like a stone, the knowledge that there is pleasure in hurting. A strong three-dimensional pleasure, an exclusive masculine delight that is exhilarating beyond all measure. And this too is God's gift to man? She wondered.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
Cleopatra was exhausting to play, but also completely exhilarating. She creates her own energy.
~ Harriet Walter
Gods, she was as exquisite as her scent— Wham! The demons tackled him with the force of a freight train, flattening him on the field, piling on top of him.
~ Kresley Cole
he limbered up, swung the guns up and down, side to side. The chair followed with them, giving him an exhilarating ride that was probably the real reason he liked the weapon so much.
~ L. Neil Smith
Like good sex, driving the car was a study in exhilarating restraint and control.
~ Jennifer Ashley
But ever since I was old enough to be cynical I have been visiting national parks, and they are a cure for cynicism, an exhilarating rest from the competitive avarice we call the American Way…. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst. —Wallace Stegner, 1983
~ Eric Blehm
Dancing with Anthony was like dancing with a particularly well-dressed, well-mannered wolf: The experience was both dangerous and exhilarating.
~ Amanda Quick
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.
~ Sharon Stone
Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.
~ Buzz Aldrin
It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing grand orchestral music in a public place is exhilarating in a way that hearing popular music never can be, if only because, in a popular music age, a full orchestra is less familiar to our ears.
~ Howard Jacobson
Dancing With the Stars' was such a family, community environment. I will always look back on this experience as one of the most fun, exhilarating things I've ever done.
~ Chrishell Stause
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
~ Charles Baudelaire
When you come out of the ocean after surfing all day, loco moco is the best thing you ever tasted.
~ Roy Choi
I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?
~ John Green, Paper Towns
Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.
~ Bill Ayers
Since Betty was on the pill or took precautions of her own which Graham did not choose to enquire into, the marital bed was untrammelled by tedious prophylaxis so that what Graham had been expecting to find an onerous and even distasteful duty unexpectedly partook of a freedom and absence of restraint that he found exhilerating.
~ Alan Bennett
By the "mysterious," I do not think Einstein was referring to something fearful or supernatural. I believe he was speaking about the boundary between the known and the unknown. Standing at that boundary is an exhilarating experience. And it is a deeply human experience—concerning what the human mind understands and what that mind does not yet understand.
~ Alan Lightman
Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.
~ Susan Orlean