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Quotes About Excitement

Just take your flak jackets and some gear because we'll be back for dinner.
~ Mark Bowden
People will tie in with a fanatic if for no other reason than to break the monotony of their lives.
~ Mark Clifton
None of them were greatly interested in the election except as a national soap opera in which the closeness of the result was more exciting than the identity of the winner. Individually, they were passionate about GP fundholding, academy schools, asylum, but none of them trusted any party to keep a promise about any of these issues. Louisa struggled to believe that she could change herself, let alone the world.
~ Mark Haddon
Ray was disappointed by the (Millenium) wheel. Too well engineered, he said. He wanted the wind in his hair and a rusty handrail and the faint pssibility that the whole structure might collapse.
~ Mark Haddon
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~ Mark Haddon
Maja is thirty-seven weeks pregnant.
~ Mark Haddon
To be in New York on a beautiful day is to feel razor close to being in love.
~ Mark Helprin
Alessandro learned yet again that the joy of escape is better than the joy of merely being free.
~ Mark Helprin
Fear, delight, and being twenty were made for each other:
~ Mark Helprin
I want to take my readers on a ride, but, in the end, I want to throw them from the carriage.
~ Mark Towse
Good food and good eating are about risk.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Whatever had the most shock value became my meal of choice.
~ Anthony Bourdain
And I've long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk.
~ Anthony Bourdain
As we continue upriver, we move farther and farther away from the world I know, and toward someone else's. It's thrilling to not know where you're going.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I loved that job. I'd drive recklessly, breaking all the laws, speeding and going on the wrong side of the street and cutting around traffic to make my deliveries so I could take my time getting back to the store.
~ Anthony Kiedis
She clung on to me desperately, whether as an affectionate gesture, a means of encouraging sympathy, or merely to maintain her balance, I was uncertain. The condition of excitement which she had reached to some extent communicated itself to me, for her flushed face rather improved her appearance, and she had lost all her earlier ill-humour.
~ Anthony Powell
I passed through empty streets, thinking that I, too, should be married soon, a change that presented itself in terms of action rather than reflection, the mood in which even the most prudent often marry: a crisis of delight and anxiety, excitement and oppression.
~ Anthony Powell
Retooling is both exciting and scary. Exciting because of the opportunity to learn, grow, create, and change.
~ Anthony Robbins
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. —MARIO ANDRETTI
~ Anthony Robbins
That's what we call flirting." "Just the reverse. Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage. This playing at caring has none of the excitement, but it often leads to the result, and sometimes ends in downright affection.
~ Anthony Trollope
She read on and on, enraptured. She could not understand half, but it excited her oddly, like words in a foreign language sung to a beautiful air. She followed the poem vaguely as she followed the Latin in her missal, guessing, inventing meanings for herself, intoxicated by the mere rush of words. And yet she felt she did understand, not with her eyes or her brain, but with some faculty she did not even know she possessed.
~ Antonia White
It's like we stepped into some TV show about cops or spies. Only we're not cops or spies. We're teenagers.
~ April Henry
We waited for our periods with excitement! ...We were delighted by the different silky weaves, the various crotch-conforming shapes, and the promise they held: The future is coming.
~ Ariel Levy
Happiness is a state of activity.
~ Aristotle