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Quotes About Excitement

I'm just floating along in this state of elation because all of life's normal responsibilities and irritations are gone. It's like a sheet of blue-lined paper, the kind you write on at school, but with the lines suddenly missing. No structure. Nothing is predictable. Everything that might happen now is new.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I had this wonderful feeling inside as I ran. Like I'd gotten a sneak peek into love, and it was okay in there.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life!
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Up to no good may mean up to something interesting!
~ Catherynne M. Valente
They knew all about the war with France from Papa's magazines. But whenever they tried to imagine what a war was actually like, it unfolded in their heads like a cross between a chess game, a horse race, a country dance, and a very racy night at the theater.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The first two human beings to set foot on another world stepped out of the jelly-hatch and into the warm, ever-so-slightly joy-coloured light of Litost's twin suns, which the Klavaret refer to collectively as Our Mums.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
everyone to know about our baby.
~ Cathy Gillen Thacker
It was like butterflies on meth in his stomach
~ Cathy Yardley
If we knew everything about the future with certainty, our lives would be drained of emotion. No surprise and pleasure, no joy or thrill—we knew it all along. The first kiss, the first proposal, the birth of a healthy child would be about as exciting as last year's weather report. If our world ever turned certain, life would be mind-numbingly dull. The
~ Gerd Gigerenzer
Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.
~ Germaine Greer
Benny said, "Oh, I can hardly wait to wash my hands! It has been two days since I've really washed them!" "Funny to hear you say that, Ben," said Henry. "I'm going to take a shower the first thing I do.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
Just as she said this, the children heard a horse and cart coming up the road.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire that puts a cat to sleep. So is it with self-love. The member that once seemed one of the wonders of the world soon becomes as homely as an old slipper. Mathew and himself gradually ceased to excite each other.
~ Gilbert Adair
There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
We don't want to settle down anymore; we've been settled, like some western township, and now we want to kick up the dust and tear down the fences. Not only won't we settle down; we also won't settle for less than what we've always wanted: a good time and a fair fight.
~ Gina Barreca
I'm so repressed even my dreams aren't exciting.
~ Gina Frangello
I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.
~ Gina Gershon
Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfying relationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for a marathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.
~ Gina Greenlee
Want more fizz in your life? Shake things up.
~ Gina Greenlee
The hero noticed that if he let love, excitement, and joy lead him, he would be happy and find his way to greater love, peace, and happiness. He discovered that love is both the path and the reward of following the path.
~ Gina Lake
per il concerto degli U2 del giorno dopo, al Madison Square Garden.
~ Giorgio Faletti
It is a humiliating fact that at nineteen the keenest sorrows have a habit of yielding, with uncanny readiness, to the soothing effects of excitement and a change of scene. It is a sound instinct, after all, which takes the rejected lover to the wilds to shoot hippopotami and lions. Even the female of the species—not of hippopotami and lions—can obtain a considerable amount of balm from driving along the Great North Road at eighty miles an hour.
~ Gladys Mitchell
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilites. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
~ Gloria Steinem
Because adventure starts the moment I leave my door.
~ Gloria Steinem