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• Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

  Quentin Crisp

  Men, Touching, Seeing

  "The Naked Civil Servant". The Naked Civil Servant, Chapter 19, 1968.

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• People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an almost inaudible drum is beating ... an awful, illicit, violent excitement is abroad. Then the elation becomes too strong to be ignored or overlooked: then everyone is possessed by it.

  Doris Lessing

  Strong, War, People

  Doris Lessing (2013). “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Oh, yesterday, that one, we all cry out. Oh, that one! How rich and possible everything was! How ripe, ready, lavish, and filled with excitement--how hopeful we were on those summer days, under the clean, white racing clouds. Oh, yesterday!

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, White, Yesterday

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Spiritual, Men, Style

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.731, Delphi Classics

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• There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Past, Magic Moments

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivation, Inspiration, Giving

  "Why we do what we do". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities and excitement of my profession; whether temporarily or permanently cannot yet be determined but, whatever may be the issue, be assured that nothing was better calculated to soothe me than the kind interest manifested by the pupils of Guy's Hospital during the many trying years devoted to that institution.

  Thomas Addison

  Responsibility, Years, Issues

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• I feel like all I've done lately is play really sexually-charged drug addicts. I don't know what's wrong with me. I've gotta go to Disneyland more and get more excitement.

  Blake Lively

  Play, Drug, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!

  Anna Sui

  Discovery, Velvet, Thrill

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• Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread through the whole composition, and so fire the rest of the things that you are only mildly interested in.

  John French Sloan

  Fire, Tree, Special

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• When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.

  Ann Romney

  Moving, Feet, Bed

  "Ann Romney heads to Wales to play up rags-to-riches roots" by Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.

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• It is imperative that we find that vital element that brings us alive... the true vitality that waits beneath all occupations for us to tap into, if we can discover what we love. If you feel energy and excitement and a sense that life is happening for the first time, you are probably near your God-given nature. Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.

  Mark Nepo

  Joy, Waiting, Energy

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• When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, but has to understand that although he has out-grown what before used to direct him, this does not mean that he must live without any reasonable guidance, but rather that he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and having elucidated it must be guided by it. And in the same way a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Understanding, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)”, p.794, e-artnow

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• Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Night, Men

  "The Journal, 1837-1861". Book by Henry David Thoreau, June, 1850, November 24, 2009.

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• To represent the best of Canada is such an honour, it's chilling. There is so much excitement.

  Hayley Wickenheiser

  Canada, Chill, Honour

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• 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

  Fun, Opportunity, People

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• All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

  J. J. Abrams

  Air, Mixtures, Lucky

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.

  Herbert Spencer

  Law, Utterance, Speech

  Herbert Spencer (1872). “Philosophy of Style: An Essay”, p.38

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• Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.

  Donald Barthelme

  Running, People, Missing

  1968 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts,'The Indian Uprising'.

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• All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Book, Talking, Usual

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere”, p.130, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

  Anthony Trollope

  Flirting, Reality, Ordinary

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.4368, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Boys, Emotional

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I've spent away from my family and loved ones, I'm starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There's a darkness inside of me that I'm only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it's starting to scare me.

  Ben Gibbard

  Fun, Darkness, Age

  "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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• God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy. Because of this extraordinary consciousness and this great ability for wonder and marvel, and without denying any of the terrors and horrors of the world, we also have an obligation toward joy and toward miracle and excitement.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Joy, Miracle, World

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.

  Freddie Mercury

  Reading, Writing, Light

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