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Quotes About Excitement

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.
~ Unknown
The excitement in London gave no guarantees about the future, and he still committed himself to no direct expression of opinion in his Diary.
~ Claire Tomalin
Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in the world, they can only be wonderful to you.
~ Unknown
Should I say that she was crazy about soldiers? Well she was. Whenever she saw one, she thought with a shiver of pleasure: is he going to kill me?
~ Clarice Lispector
Arriving back home, I didn't start to read it. I pretended I didn't have it, in order to have, later, the shock of discovering it. I opened it hours later, had a few marvelous lines, closed it again, walked around the house, put it off even more by going to eat a piece of bread with butter, pretended I didn't know where I had left it, found it, opened it for a few instants. I created the most false sense for that covert thing that was joy. Joy would always be covert for me.
~ Clarice Lispector
Love is the greatest Joy of Discovery one can feel!
~ Claude Bernard
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
~ Claude Bernard
One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.
~ Clifton Fadiman
I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
~ Clint Eastwood
Life's a daring adventure or nothing at all.
~ Clive Cussler
I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.
~ Cobi Jones
A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
~ Colette
Faites des bêtises, mais faites-les avec enthousiasme
~ Colette
and Lewis felt excitement, and gratification. Somebody—some
~ Colin Dexter
The Plane!, The Plane!
~ Herve Villechaize
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.
~ Heywood Broun
I ABSOLUTELY looooove the Plaza!- Eloise age 6
~ Hilary Knight
If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469
~ Hilary Mantel
I see that both the living and the dead commute, riding their familiar trains. I am not, as you will have gathered, a person who needs false excitement, or simulated innovation. I am willing, though, to tear up the timetable and take some new routes; and I know I shall find, at some unlikely terminus, a hand that is meant to rest in mine.
~ Hilary Mantel
He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.
~ Hilary McKay
Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid.
~ Hilary McKay
Miss Farley recognized him. 'We must find you a seat near the front!' she cried, loud enough for the whole school to hear and abandoning her raffle tickets in her excitement. 'Recorders! One moment please while we find a place for Baby Jesus's grandad!
~ Hilary McKay
Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.
~ Hilary Swank
NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.
~ Unknown