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Quotes About Excitement

Anxiety. — Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.
~ Bruce Lee
In every subject, the student experience should be summed up by '3Es': exciting, engaging and enjoyable. The extent to which this holds true will be determined by the quality of teaching.
~ Bruce Robertson
From my perch on the couch atop the truck I watched our wheels cross the town line, turn left on Highway 33, pick up some speed and head for the ocean breezes and new freedoms of the Shore. With the warm night whistling by me, I felt wonderfully and perilously adrift, giddy with excitement. This town, my town, would never leave me, and I could never completely leave it, but I would never live in Freehold again.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Danger is cool.
~ Bryan Cranston
Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.
~ Bryan White
The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.
~ Buffalo Bill
From the ranks of the Richmond militia across the square, a thin-shouldered infantryman glared at the hooded figure on the scaffold. The militiaman's eyes were dark with excitement, as if he had quite lost himself in the spectacle. He was Private John Wilkes Booth.
~ Burke Davis
extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements;
~ Herman Melville
What followed for two hours was such an adventure as only wretched amateurs would indulge in...
~ Hilaire Belloc
Her heart raced with joy to sleep with War
~ Homer
Customers at a marathon do not have to be prepared for their excitement. When anything happens they get excited all at once. In that respect a marathon dance is like a bullfight.
~ Horace McCoy
Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.
~ Howard Zinn
Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper in Ruleville, Mississippi, became legendary as organizer and speaker. She sang hymns; she walked picket lines with her familiar limp (as a child she contracted polio). She roused people to excitement at mass meetings: I'm sick an' tired o' bein' sick an' tired!
~ Howard Zinn
And the New York Journal of Commerce, half-playfully, half-seriously, wrote: Let us go to war. The world has become stale and insipid, the ships ought all to be captured, and the cities battered down, and the world burned up, so that we can start again. There would be fun in that, Some interest, — something to talk about.
~ Howard Zinn
Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba…
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow what a ride!
~ Hunter S. Thompson
This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba....
~ Hunter S. Thompson
There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
What? No. We can't stop here. This is bat country.
~ Hunter S. Thompson