best quotations about
Excitement |
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Quotations
 | Create a life you can’t wait to live. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 12 likes |
 | The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 12 likes |
 | It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 9 likes |
 | Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat (1789, the year of the French Revolution) 9 likes |
 | My brothers, come quickly, I am tasting the stars! — Dom Perignon, 1638-1715, French monk, inventor of champagne (when tasting the first sparkling champagne) 6 likes |
 | Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 5 likes |
 | Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 5 likes |
 | When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 5 likes |
 | Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 5 likes |
 | Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 4 likes |
 | When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 4 likes |
 | Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 4 likes |
 | Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 4 likes |
 | The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 3 likes |
 | Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what? — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | What I find interesting in a woman is what I don't dare ask of her. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 3 likes |
 | Everything is in utter chaos; this is an excellent situation. — Mao Zedong, 1893-1976, Chinese leader 3 likes |
 | Seducing women is a man's most exciting adventure. — Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893, French writer 3 likes |
 | When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 3 likes |
 | Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 2 likes |
 | Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 1 likes |
 | There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 1 likes |
 | There are three intolerable things in life: cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women. — Orson Welles, 1915-1985, American actor & film director 1 likes |
 | The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 1 likes |
 | You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 1 likes |
 | I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
 | People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 1 likes |
 | The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world. — Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American self-help writer 1 likes |
 | There is always in a book—even a badly written one—a phrase that smacks the reader in the face, as if it were waiting for him alone. — Christian Bobin, 1951-2022, French writer 1 likes |
 | I don’t know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 1 likes |
 | “It’s quite exciting,” said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 1 likes |
| There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 1 likes |
| I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 1 likes |
 | There is always more passion in attack than in defense. — Titus Livius, 59 BC-17 AD, Roman historian 1 likes |
 | Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions. — Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, British film director 1 likes |
| Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. — Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, British film director 1 likes |
 | I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. — Anais Nin, 1903-1977, French writer 1 likes |
 | So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp. — Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet 1 likes |
 | I can’t think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul. — Bob Ross, 1942-1995, American painter & TV personality 1 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. — Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet 3 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 15 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving! — from the film Frankenstein (1931) 8 likes |
 | Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things. — from the film The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 4 likes |
