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Quotes About Excitement

It's just that I know the world is so wide and full of people and exciting things that I just go crazy every day stuck in these institutions. I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes lots of training. You have to start very young.
~ Elaine Dundy
I went to the window and looked out at the September evening. Though still hot with the vanished sun, the dusk, with its suggestion of autumn and nights drawing in, sent shivers of excitement up and down my spine. I thought of sex and sin; of my body and all the men in the world who would never sleep with it. I felt a vague, melancholy sensation running through me, not at all unpleasant.
~ Elaine Dundy
We went to a movie and he kissed me for the first time. We kissed right through it... "Now let's kiss somewhere else," said Max.
~ Elaine Dundy
was finally living a fantasy I had cherished for years. Of course, I got sick and hardly enjoyed a minute of the trip. At the time, I thought I must be neurotically robbing myself of my big moment. Now, understanding this trait, I see that the trip was just too exciting.
~ Elaine N. Aron
It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!
~ Eleanor Hodgman Porter
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I say to the young: Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I loved it…I simply ate it up.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I felt a sensation that later in my life was often repeated: the joy of the new.
~ Elena Ferrante
Ahead of us were many hours when no one in our families would look for us. When I think of the pleasure of being free, I think of the start of that day, of coming out of the tunnel and finding ourselves on a road that went straight as far as the eye could see, the road that, according to what Rino had told Lila, if you got to the end arrived at the sea. I felt joyfully open to the unknown.
~ Elena Ferrante
The balcony extended over the void like a diving board over a pool.
~ Elena Ferrante
Experimentei algo que depois, ao longo de minha vida, se repetiu frequentemente: a alegria do novo
~ Elena Ferrante
Tu corazón va más deprisa que el vals.
~ Elena Garro
The train came into sight, rumbling closer, bringing the feeling of aliveness and plenitude inherent to incoming trains.
~ Elif Batuman
If you knew there was a beach where you could pick up gold nuggets like pebble stones, would you not go there? Go there.
~ Anthony M. Esolen
Those who jump out of airplanes do not love life—they deny it, which, of course, is not done without a certain naughty exhilaration. Like children they relish tugging on the apron of Mother Nature, as long as she doesn't turn and slap them.
~ Anthony Marais
I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours.
~ Anthony Robbins
By arousal, I mean a condition of heightened alertness, awareness, interest, and excitement: a generally enhanced state of being.
~ Anthony Storr
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
People who know nothing about politics and its ill effects often discuss politics most excitedly at shops or public places. They are either totally idle or mentally dismantle.
~ Anuj Somany
No matter how dutiful one tried to feel, it was impossible to be sad at leaving this behind, not when the blood ran hot and rich in the veins, and when out in the world there were all the untried beckoning enchantments : dancing, sensuous music, merriment - and love.
~ Anya Seton