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Quotes About Excitement

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.
~ Patrick O'Brian
I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.
~ Patrick White
When a leader is excited about a project, or trusts the people in the team, this too is infectious; fears are calmed and people are inspired to do their best.
~ Paul Brown
People call love sickness heartache, but that's not where you feel rejection. Your heart only responds to excitement and fear - racing, pounding, skipping beats. You feel rejection in the pit of your stomach. It's like the moment you realise you've eaten bad food, and you know that all you've got to look forward to is a night of twisted torment and twisted sheets.
~ Unknown
Ah, but LSU is a very intoxicating place-- and I'm not talking about the alcohol that flows so freely there on a Saturday night.
~ Unknown
The red-jacketed band stirred to life. The first musician raised his trumpet. The trombone dipped. The drumstick rose. Lea lowered her clarinet. It had been Brent's idea not to have their insturments rise and fall in unison. The staggered motion gave it a more exciting rhythm.
~ Paul Fleischman
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.
~ Paul Gallico
Hers was the bliss of one who knew that at last she was off upon the adventure at the end of which lay her heart's desire'.
~ Paul Gallico
Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.
~ Unknown
Haven't you ever gotten carried away and done something totally spur of the moment like that?" "Everybody gets carried away from time to time," Tracy told the boy who had carried him away.
~ Unknown
Emphasizing the honky-tonk and the wickedness, I sounded disapproving, but I was happy. This was life to me, and I was joyous on those seedy streets, pretty women in doorways snatching at me. I was a thrill-seeking traveler, looking for something sensational to write about, but I did not look very deeply.
~ Paul Theroux
made notes on my progress through the mountains, which had thrilled me.
~ Paul Theroux
I was traveling south in sunshine, euphoric again, on the open road.
~ Paul Theroux
and in a lifetime of travel had never felt more fully alive
~ Paul Theroux
Could be dangerous," Diego said
~ Paul Theroux
I said that. "A veces, las personas—los paracaidistas—mueren." Sometimes the skydivers die. Dieter seemed pleased that I had challenged him
~ Paul Theroux
to be anonymous and traveling in an interesting place is an intoxication
~ Paul Theroux
It was always like a fire drill, getting on or off a Chinese train, with people panting and pushing
~ Paul Theroux
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure
~ Paulo Coelho
The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort
~ Paulo Coelho
Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.
~ Paulo Coelho
What kills a relationship between two people is precisely the lack of challenge, the feeling that nothing is new anymore. We need to continue to be a surprise for each other.
~ Paulo Coelho
I haven't the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next.
~ Paulo Coelho