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Quotes About Excitement

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
~ Aristotle
Adventure is worthwhile.
~ Aristotle
Rash men wish for dangers beforehand but draw back when they are in them. Brave men are excited at the moment of action, but collected beforehand.
~ Aristotle
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
~ Aristotle
C'mon, let's go join those tedious people.
~ Armistead Maupin
A good novel rushes you forward like a skiff down a stream, and you arrive at the end, perhaps breathless, but unexhausted.
~ Arnold Bennett
I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
dying in an exciting situation is much better than living in a boring one.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
There is nothing in the least exciting or glamorous about deep-water operations—if they're done properly. Excitement means lack of foresight, and that means incompetence. The incompetent do not last long in my business, nor do those who crave excitement. I went about my job with all the pent-up emotion of a plumber dealing with a leaking faucet.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
But dying in an exciting situation is much better than living in a boring one.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Come, Watson, come! he cried. The game is afoot.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Come, Watson, come!' he cried. 'The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!' Ten minutes later we were both in a cab and rattling through the silent streets on our way to Charing Cross Station.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Wonderful! I ejaculated.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I should like to meet him, I said. If I am to lodge with anyone, I should prefer a man of studious and quiet habits. I am not strong enough yet to stand much noise or excitement. I had enough of both in Afghanistan to last me for the remainder of my natural existence. How could I meet this friend of yours?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with astonishment. "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
he breaks away as I did from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
broke out into a loud crow of delight. We are certainly in luck, said he. We ought to have very little trouble now.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Come, Watson, come! he cried. The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Mon esprit est rebelle à toute inaction. Fournissez moi des problèmes,donnez moi du travail ...et la je suis dans mon élément.Je peux alors me passer de stimulants artificiels. Mais j'abhorre la morne routine de l'existence.J'ai un besoin impérieux d'excitation mentale.C'est pour cela que j'exerce cette profession si particulière, ou plutot que je l'ai crée car je suis le seul au monde
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Pero me horroriza la aburrida rutina de la existencia. Tengo ansias de exaltación mental.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a romance! cried Mrs. Forrester. An injured lady, half a million in treasure, a black cannibal, and a wooden-legged ruffian. They take the place of the conventional dragon or wicked earl.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Mischief twinkled in his eyes. 'Okay' isn't even close. Kissing you is like a roller-coaster ride to outer space. The farther we go, the more I'm lost and the more I want to explore new territory
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Follow me down before anyone else gets show. Especially before I get shot, 'cause that would just ruin an otherwise nice day. (Jack)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon