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Quotes About Excitement

Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him" (Hebrews 11:6, emphasis added). Call that payoff contentment, satisfaction, peace, or excitement—it all adds up to one word: happiness
~ Randy Alcorn
My gosh, if you're going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would've talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!
~ Ray Bradbury
if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.
~ Ray Bradbury
The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the two boys pursuing, the air was so cold they ate ice cream with each breath.
~ Ray Bradbury
For the first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it would be better for his health.
~ Ray Bradbury
They felt the wings on their fingers and elbows flying, then, suddenly plunged in new sweeps of air, the clear autumn river flung them headlong where they must go. Up steps, three, six, nine, twelve! Slap! Their palms hit the library door. Jim and Will grinned at each other. It was all so good, these blowing quiet October nights and the library waiting inside now with its green-shaded lamps and papyrus dust.
~ Ray Bradbury
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
~ Ray Bradbury
Stand by for the lovely concussion.
~ Ray Bradbury
RELISH! What a special name for the minced pickle sweetly crushed in its white-capped jar. The man who had named it, what a man he must have been. Roaring, stamping around, he must have tromped the joys of the world and jammed them in this jar and writ in a big hand, shouting, RELISH! For its very sound meant rolling in sweet fields with roistering chestnut mares, mouths bearded with grass, plunging your head fathoms deep in trough water so the sea poured cavernously through your head. RELISH!
~ Ray Bradbury
In your life, did you know enthusiasm?' If the answer is yes you enter the sky. If no, you fall to burn in the pit.
~ Ray Bradbury
Everything I've ever done was done with excitement, because I wanted to do it, because I loved doing it.
~ Ray Bradbury
That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.
~ Ray Bradbury
And the trip? Exactly one half terror, exactly one half exhilaration.
~ Ray Bradbury
The speedometer read 110. My stomach was stone like the stone walls rushing left and right. Up over a hill, down into a valley. "Can't we go a bit faster?" I asked, hoping for the opposite. "Done!" said Finn, and made it 120. "That will do it nicely," I said, in a faint voice, wondering what lay ahead.
~ Ray Bradbury
For the first thing a writer should be is—excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms
~ Ray Bradbury
If I went out with a couple of rifles and a gun bearer, and twenty or thirty beaters, to hunt a lion, I should not feel that the lion had much chance, and so the pleasure of the hunt would be lessened in proportion to the increased safety which I felt.
~ Joseph Conrad
Arise, my love, and come away," and enjoy the good and glorious things of life.
~ Joseph Murphy
Shiny, let's be bad guys!
~ Joss Whedon
Time for some thrillin' heroics.
~ Joss Whedon
Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that's what life is like, that's what interests me.
~ Joss Whedon
There's something about other people isn't there?--you'd like to know who they are?--you'd like to be them, maybe? People you never saw before and--my voice lifting in excitement, it's so strange how they're different from you, isn't it?--or like if somebody had the power, say somebody said to you, 'would you change places with the next person you see, a stranger just turning a corner,' I'd say, 'Hell yes.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Midway through the class Erma handed back the students' self-portraits and asked for volunteers to read their work aloud, which induced a flurry of excitement and drama.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
She is frightened but she is thrilled. She is thrilled but she is frightened.
~ Joyce Carol Oates