Quotes About Excitement

Jack and Annie went quietly down the stairs. Then they slipped out the door into the chilly, damp night.

Just then, a shout came from the lookouts' nest: "Iceberg ahead!" Jack and Annie turned back to the window—just in time to see a huge iceberg looming out of the sea. The iceberg was dark with a fringe of

Jack felt a jolt. Then he heard a grinding sound. The ship was scraping against the mountain of ice.

He charged down the hill. He leaped to his

Jack threw his stuff into his knapsack. He put it on and climbed out the window.

Suddenly, the front of the ship dipped down into the sea. Deck chairs started to slide past Jack and Annie.

Ahhh!" Jack screamed and fell back into the canoe. The

Peanut!" cried Annie. Jack patted

What's different? Sweat, risk, uncertainty, inconvenience. But also, awe. Pride. Something ineffably splendid and stirring.

It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.

If you insist on driving around in vintage cars with no seat belt on, try to time your crashes for the systole—blood-squeezed-out—portion of your heartbeat.

Seriously hairy shit was going down on a regular basis.

Her life's full of exclamation points.

These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holiday mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river.

Nada hay más doloroso para el espíritu humano, tras la excitación que provoca la rápida sucesión de los acontecimientos, como esa calma mortal de apatía y certidumbre que la sigue, y priva al alma de toda esperanza y temor.

When you let excitement in, Johnny would add, in a lecture-room sort of voice, fear will follow.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive, well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, 'Woo-hoo! What a ride.

A pataphor is an extreme form of metaphor that is used to express excitement. For example, "She swam with such grace that the water was left undisturbed by her tail." This pataphor describes a girl who swims as gracefully as a fish. Be

a quick wave of excitement racing up your spine. It

is getting bored, shift the topic of the story or change the tone of your voice to make it sound more exciting.

After Commencement Day, the world! Joe said. With Betsy.

Hey! Jack the Wanker! Over here! I want your autograph!

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons....

It was a bit on the frantic side, maybe because neither one of us had done the metal preparation, so we were both thinking, Oh, right! Kissing! Quickly! Quickly! More movement! Deploy tongue!