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Quotes About Excitement

Cage fighting appeals to the savage instinct in some people, including me, and we're all here for the same reason—to see one fighter annihilate another. We want to see bleeding eyes, gashes across the forehead, choke holds, bone-ripping submissions, and brutal knockout punches that send the corners scrambling for the doctor. Mix in a flood of cheap beer, and you have five thousand maniacs begging for blood.
~ John Grisham
He couldn't wait to get to school.
~ John Grisham
The faster I ran, the faster the llama ran. I could hear the monkey squealing, having fun, I guess.
~ John Grisham
Early that morning, she had written to her mother to say she was so excited
~ John Guy
The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and begin to look for excitement in less productive places.
~ John Howard Griffin
Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
~ John Irving
ARE THEY ESPECIALLY WILD?
~ John Irving
The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking ...
~ John Irving
Why do you guys want to take all the mystery away? Isn't the mystery an exciting part of sex?
~ John Irving
We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.
~ John Irving
YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR, YOU DON'T NEED ANY SPECIAL TALENT, YOU JUST HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT SOMEONE WANTS YOU TO SEE—TO WHAT MAKES SOMEONE ANGRIEST, OR THE MOST EXCITED IN SOME OTHER WAY. IT'S SO EASY; I THINK THAT'S WHY THERE ARE SO MANY ENGLISH MAJORS
~ John Irving
You just go up the Hudson," I told him. "Sure, man," he said. "Up the what?
~ John Irving
Bromley Mountain. It was close to
~ John Irving
Were you happy when you heard the news, Grandpa?" "You can't believe how happy." "What did you do to celebrate?" "I started dancing and fell in a trench full of shit.
~ John Jakes
I never feel as fully awake as when I'm in New York.
~ John Jeremiah Sullivan
I never feel as fully awake as when I'm in NY.
~ John Jeremiah Sullivan
When a mood of excitement pervades a market or surrounds an investment prospect, when there is a claim of unique opportunity based on special foresight, all sensible people should circle the wagons; it is the time for caution.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Your hair grows more quickly when you're anticipating sex.
~ John Lloyd
There was nothing even faintly exciting about this work; it was pure tedium, and pure boredom. And yet every step involved contact with something that could kill, and every step involved passion.
~ John M. Barry
It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
I like the atmosphere. You can't beat it when you're introduced. I like making a play and hearing the fans scream. I like the physical as well as the emotional aspect, especially when you win.
~ Unknown
It's kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don't get on the ride, you won't experience the adventure.
~ Mariah Carey
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick