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Quotes About Excitement

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
~ Aphra Behn
At the sight of him, I was clutched by a feeling like that precarious moment just past the top of a roller coaster's highest hill when gravity takes hold and the car barrels downward.
~ April Lindner
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
~ Aristotle
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
~ Aristotle
Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.
~ Aristotle
Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.
~ Arlen Specter
Seen through Durkheim's eyes, the real function of the excited gathering around Donald Trump is to unify all the white, evangelical enthusiasts who fear that those "cutting ahead in line" are about to become a terrible, strange, new America. The source of the awe and excitement isn't simply Trump himself; it is the unity of the great crowd of strangers gathered around him. If the rally itself could speak, it would say, "We are a majority!
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.
~ Armistead Maupin
My definition of living is to have excitement always; that's the difference between living and existing.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Enthusiasm moves the world.
~ Arthur Balfour
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I don't think the qualifying fixtures excite people. They're games against countries that we are expected to beat, rightly so, and then how many we score dictates whether it's a good performance or not.
~ Gareth Southgate
I like making movies that have some of the qualities of first-person shooter games. That was very important to me for the 'Bourne' franchise.
~ Doug Liman
The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.
~ Rob Zombie
'Borderlands' came out of nowhere to appease the gnawing hunger left behind with the dearth of quality dungeon crawlers on the market.
~ Rob Manuel
The quarter finals is always an exciting round because you know you're one match away from that one table situation: where the magic really starts to happen at the Crucible and where it starts to come into its own.
~ Stephen Hendry
It's very exciting... what DeAndre brings to the game is truly special. To have the opportunity to play with a football player like that, that's what gets a quarterback out of bed in the morning.
~ Brock Osweiler
Sometimes if you're dealing with straight interviewers they're a little more excited if you're in drag: 'Oooh! Aaaah! Eeeee!' But if you're just sitting there out of drag, they think you're just a bitter queen.
~ Bianca Del Rio
I hit the road with a bunch of drag queens every year, sometimes two times a year. Again, as such a fan of drag, it's the art form that excites me and the longform presentation that they do. So it's super exciting to be with them, doing what they love to do and doing it well.
~ Michelle Visage
I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.
~ Tom Waits
You either end up on a good, fun show that's successful, or you have that question mark in your future, and you know that you don't know what's going to happen, which is exciting.
~ Lucy Griffiths
If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.
~ Oliver Stone