Excitement Quotes

• It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community

  

  Saul Perlmutter
  • People
  • Fun
  • Opportunity

• It was shaping up to be one of a handful of days in my life that filled me with the kind of anticipation and excitement that makes your anus tingle ever so slightly.

  

  Chad Kultgen
  • Days
  • Filled
  • Anticipation

• That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.

  

  Andrew van der Bijl
  • Mind
  • Excitement
  • Obedience

• Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • War
  • Habit

• Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • Team
  • Football
  • Fans

• A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Experience
  • Unfailing
  • Sublunary

• We talk about orphanages, we talk about their countries and differences, and it’s a source of excitement and pride. I’ve heard Maddox explain to Zahara when they are talking about pregnancy, ‘No, Zee, remember, you were in that nice African woman’s belly. I was in that nice Cambodian woman’.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Nice

• There are moments when suddenly our eyes blink open and we recapture the excitement of living. Life becomes an adventure and we, adventurers.

  

  Wayne Visser
  • Moments
  • Blink
  • Adventurer

• Why do you like to cuss? Everybody likes to cuss. I don’t. They don’t call you Mr. Excitement for nothing.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Excitement
  • Cuss

• When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh.

  

  Andrea Modica
  • Relationship
  • Excitement
  • Photographing

• The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.

  

  Steve Berlin Los Lobos
  • Sound
  • Create
  • Excitement

• For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Excitement
  • Confrontation
  • Maximum

• The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Suffering
  • Blow
  • Prejudice

• I had so much pressure from the fans. No one knew what was going on. I had to keep my mouth shut. I think that builds the excitement anyway, so I’m glad we did it the way we did. I’m so glad that it’s out now.

  

  Jack Gilinsky
  • Fans
  • Pressure
  • Excitement

• What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring exercise, and students feel it. Uncovering the laws of physics and making them see through the equations, on the other hand, demonstrates the process of discovery, with all its newness and excitement, and students love being part of it.

  

  Walter Lewin
  • Found
  • Students
  • Discovery

• Often fear is the same emotion as excitement. It means you are breaking ground.

  

  Anya Hindmarch
  • Fear
  • Excitement
  • Breaking

• Relief. Excitement and relief. Relief is definitely the key word.

  

  Gerry Dee
  • Key
  • Excitement
  • Relief

• I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Writing
  • Trouble
  • Displacement

• When I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.

  

  Karl Barry Sharpless
  • Adventure
  • Discovery
  • Chemistry

• I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.

  

  Willie Morris
  • Faces
  • Photograph
  • Grown

• When asked, "What do you think love is?" a lot of people speak of things that are painful or lingering. I wanted to talk about various sides to love. Things such as the excitement, happiness, parting, pain, regret regarding love.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • People
  • Love
  • Happiness

• But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Games
  • Excitement
  • Stir

• By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • State
  • Accounts
  • Rotterdam

• It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • War
  • Cruelty

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