logo

Quotes About Excitement

For the second time since she left Japan, she shivered with excitement. She'd felt it at the dinner table at Thanksgiving, and now, again, even stronger—as if somehow she'd been absorbed into a massive body that had taken over the functions of her own, and now it was infusing her small heart with the superabundance of its feeling, teaching her taut belly to swell, stretching her rib cage, and pumping spurts of happy life into her fetus.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Reminded us how exciting it was to abandon security and run toward the life that is waiting.
~ Ruth Reichl
We wait for it, because we always wait for something that will be big, extraordinary and splendid, that will bring us great joy and fill us with pride while also reminding us that there exists something greater than locking and unlocking the office at the same hour, collecting chicks, flattering the boss, petty swindles, loveless embraces, downtime due to poor work coordination, the songs of Rinaldo Bali?ski, or vodka spilled on the table
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
After all, it is the best time of one's life, the first period of falling in love, when with every meeting, every glance, one brings home something new to rejoice over.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
and she was beautiful, a beautiful, strange adventure just waiting to happen.
~ S.D. Perry
She eats her whole packet of mints before the plane even takes off.
~ Sally Rippin
The girls gasp. Billie grins proudly.
~ Sally Rippin
OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.
~ Salman Rushdie
Arré Ahmed!" Amina Sinai yelled, "Janum, the baby! It's coming—bang on time!
~ Salman Rushdie
Gazing for the first time upon this amphibian terrain, this bog of nightmare, I should have felt excited; but the heat and recent events were weighing me down; my upper lip was still childishly wet with nose-goo, but I felt oppressed by a feeling of having moved directly from an overlong and dribbling childhood into a premature (though still leaky) old age.
~ Salman Rushdie
There is no greater anesthetic than sport.
~ John Oliver
I remember thinking, "Far out, I can't believe this," when I started riding waves. Then I was starting to imagine where it could take me.
~ Mark Occhilupo
I still get the feeling I got when I started, that's why I'm still doing it after all these years, I still get that full adrenalin rush before I compete.
~ Mark Occhilupo
In no other sport must the spectator move.
~ John Updike
It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in.
~ Peter Forsberg
It's not only hockey, it's every sport. You know, it's a big event.
~ Peter Forsberg
I'm forever gonna miss the start to the finish, the rush of racing downhill.
~ Picabo Street
I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out.
~ Stefan Edberg
I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
You are going to love the sports here. Snow skiing and water-skiing and rock climbing and all kinds of extreme sports. I give you full permission to hurl yourself off stuff.
~ Cynthia Hand, Unearthly
Life would be better if the Leafs would make the playoffs. Life would be perfect if they'd win the Stanley Cup.
~ Tom Earle
A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.
~ Lady Bird Johnson
We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
When you go to a film festival as an audience member, it's so much fun. But when you bring your own film there, you carry so much stress and excitement.
~ Mora Stephens