Excitement Quotes - Page 25

• I don't trade for excitement; I trade to win

  Larry Hite

  Winning, Trade

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• Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Believe, Space, Doe

  "Seth MacFarlane on hosting the Oscars, being hated by 'South Park'". Interview with Jonah Weiner, www.cnn.com. December 11, 2012.

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• It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Pride, President, Lists

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• You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

  Stephen Daldry

  Theatre, Excess, Youth

  "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

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• At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

  May Sinclair

  Thrill, Quiet, Moments

  May Sinclair (1915). “A Journal of Impressions in Belgium”

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• Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Doe, Needs, Cinema

  "Portrait of the artist: Baz Luhrmann, director". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.

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• People go, 'What do you want to do?' What do you want to do? What are you feeling? Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do—that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

  Terry Richardson

  Powerful, Knowing, People

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• I hear hate. I hear people who clearly don't have a great understanding of the American dream. That the American dream is based on hard work and dedication, determination, resilience, excitement, mentorship, help and love for each other.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Dream, Determination, Hate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Christian, Passion, Humility

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• In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find 'the ultimate questioner' - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question.

  Kedar Joshi

  Grief, Joy, Solitude

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• The 2nd secret to success is to be emotionally 'engaged' with your goals, but not emotionally attached. What's the difference? When you are emotionally engaged you create excitement & enthusiasm for the possibility of achieving your goals, but when you are emotionally attached you create fear & pain that you might not.

  Hal Elrod

  Success, Pain, Differences

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Aug 29, 2010

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• I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.

  Vera Farmiga

  Children, Stress, School

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every way from whom you normally are, the person that you are when you wake up in the morning is who you are in your life. But to take that and have the opportunity to be the complete opposite of that, is the excitement of it.

  Alicia Keys

  Morning, Opportunity, Opposites

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Investment Success, Enemy

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2004.

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• Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!

  Stephen Fry

  Love You, Pleasure Love, Library

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• The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Simple, Ego, Facts

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.267, UPNE

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• Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us - for that moment only.

  Walter Pater

  Change, Real, Passion

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• When you go to a film festival as an audience member, it's so much fun. But when you bring your own film there, you carry so much stress and excitement.

  Mora Stephens

  Fun, Stress, Festivals

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• I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.

  Penelope Lively

  Spring, Childhood, Church

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• I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Needs, Feels, Stirring

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• I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Sadness, Rooms, Inspired

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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• I'm a firm believer that the wild-card teams, because they're grinding it out until the final days, have a tremendous amount of excitement. That excitement carries over into the playoffs and really helps.

  Tim Salmon

  Team, Finals, Cards

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• It was very exciting to see Alan Sugar, so I think I've peaked with excitement for the evening, because I'm a massive Apprentice fan.

  David Walliams

  Thinking, Fans, Sugar

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• There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Beautiful, Joy, Painting

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Boredom, Tides

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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