Quotes About Excitement

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

I've retrained myself since childhood into a kind of diligent goodwill toward life. Life and I became friends some years ago - not the sort of exciting friendship I longed for as a child, but a kindly truce, a pleasure in coming home

her heart pounding like a teenaged boy on a hooker...

the giving of tea parties is by no means my favorite amusement. In fact, I would prefer to be pursued across the desert by a band of savage Dervishes brandishing spears and howling for my blood. I would rather be chased up a tree by a mad dog, or face a mummy risen from its grave. I would rather be threatened by knives, pistols, poisonous snakes, and the curse of a long-dead king....

Burckhardt fumbled through his notes. "Dakin and

Elizabeth Peters

And there they were, arrived; and it was San Salvatore; and their suit-cases were waiting for them; and they had not been murdered.

the expression on her face, which was swept by the excitement of what she saw ... was as luminous and tremulous under it as water in sunlight when it is ruffled by a gust of wind.

but it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to.

She herself had certainly never been more alive. She felt electric. She would not have been surprised if sparks had come crackling out of the tips of her sober gloves.

I'll get the popcorn." I yelled up the stairs to let Bruce know I was coming. I also had the beer and my laptop.

Mrs. Carstairs is terribly excited about being aboard this particular ship, as it is the Titanic's maiden voyage, and she is suppose to be the largest ever built.

Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, Don't Worry, Be Happy. I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year.

Anchors aweigh, my boys,Anchors aweigh!Farewell to college joys,We sail at break of day.

Drama is like life with the dull bits cut out.

What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect 'woman of mystery' is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

Land in sight! Land in sight!

He understood now why the world was strange, why horses galloped furiously, and why trains whistled as they raced through stations.

I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me.