Quotes About Excitement

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

Plain and simple, skydiving is all about controlled terror, and I love it.

I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

We always feel better in anticipation. You don't think about something and think "Aw, it's gonna be shitty." NO! You say "This is gonna be the greatest weekend ever! Sonuvabitch!" And then, by Monday, you're throwing up and you're thinking "You know, I always thought those guys were pricks!"

I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

Of course I was excited to be working opposite Irrfan, but I didn't feel the urge to scream 'Oh my god!' or behave like a fan-girl. If he's an actor then so am I. Having said this, he is an incredible actor and has tremendous screen presence.

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

I will say, if you are planning a seaplane expedition anytime soon I urge you to brace yourselves.

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.

True urgent leadership doesn't drain people. It does the opposite. It energizes them. It makes them feel excited.

An interesting life could always use a little seduction, confidence, ambition, and danger.

I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

I'm a big fan of old, classic American musclecars like a Shelby GT or the '69 Dodge Charger, cars that inspired me through my childhood. They used to get me real excited when I was a kid. To own one and actually be able to drive them in America is a little of a dream.

My friends have named me the person they least want to do extreme adventures with, because I always seem to be very close to being part of a disaster. If a cat has nine lives, I think I've used a few.

A fad is something that gives just a couple of minutes of extreme fun. It can be useful. It can be useless.

I try to be sensitive to the power of language, to the power of language that God uses to reveal something about what Christ is doing in our time. That is why I'm always excited about preaching, because there is always something new.

One of the things I love so much about horror is the way it uses surprise, and when I write, it's about: What have we not seen before? What's going to surprise us? If we're not going beyond, taking that challenge, I get kind of bored.

Everyone talks about Utah riding, slickrock and all that. I go through the mountain-bike magazines at the shop, and I think, 'That'd be awesome.'

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.