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Quotes About Excitement

The hoofbeats rang through the town like pistol shots.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
It was dangerous lunacy, but it was also the kind of thing a real connoisseur of edge-work could make an argument for.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Maybe the who secret of turning a crowd on is getting turned on yourself by the crowd
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Right," I said. "But first we need the car. And after that, the cocaine. And then the tape recorder, for special music, and some Acapulco shirts.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Right," I said. "But first we need the car. And after that, the cocaine. And then the tape recorder, for special music, and some Acapulco
~ Hunter S. Thompson
We had several narrow escapes: at one point I tried to drive the Great Red Shark into the laundry room of the Landmark Hotel—but the door was too narrow, and the people inside seemed dangerously excited.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The rhythm of the weekend was picking up Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a huge beer delivery, the rending of metal, greedy laughter and a rumble of excitement when Sonny told what had happened at Williams' store.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting 'Holy shit, what a ride!
~ Hunter S. Thompson
You bought the ticket, now take the ride.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Buy the ticket take the ride.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Thus his belief was that in a service where feeling could be restrained it ought to be restrained. The power of God was more likely to be known in a solemn stillness than amid noise and excitement. Silence and an expectant seriousness, born of a realisation of the nearness of God, were striking characteristics of the services at Sandfields.
~ Iain H. Murray
You never get real adventures without a bit of risk somewhere.
~ Ian Fleming
Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
~ Ian Fleming
Oh, it's all been such a lark.
~ Ian Fleming
There was a scream of tortured rubber as the tyres caught the boulevard in a harsh left-handed turn, the deafening echo of a Citroën's exhaust in second gear, a crash into top, then a swiftly diminishing crackle as the car hared off between the shops on the main street towards the coast-road.
~ Ian Fleming
Ever heard of "The House of Diamonds"?
~ Ian Fleming
Bond smelt the smell of danger.
~ Ian Fleming
That's no way to treat adventures. Never say no to adventures. Always say yes. Otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
~ Ian Fleming
they came up with the idea that I should make a round-trip of the most exciting cities of the world and describe them in beautiful, beautiful prose. This could be accomplished, they said, within a month.
~ Ian Fleming
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
~ Ian Mcewan
A man newly in love knows what life is.
~ Ian Mcewan
she could write the scene three times over, from three points of view; her excitement was in the prospect of freedom, of being delivered from the cumbrous struggle between good and bad, heroes and villains.
~ Ian Mcewan
Reflecting on the night before, he found it extraordinary that after a lifetime of infidelities, a night with an imaginary friend was no less exciting.
~ Ian Mcewan
Too much excitement, Your Majesty?" I asked. "He was standing too close." "He was asking about Andrea." "Too close. I didn't like it." Curran wrapped his arm around my shoulders and started walking, steering me away from the group. His Possessive Majesty in all of his glory.
~ Ilona Andrews