Excited Quotes
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I'm excited, but I am also realistic. I have seen what happened to the people who came before me and failed. It's an unforgiving arena to be in.
jimmy kimmel— On the beginning of Jimmy Kimmel Live! — reported in Terry Morrow (January 24, 2003) "Kimmel & family head to ABC (beer's on hold)", The Knoxville News-Sentinel, p. 9.
People have success with this method and it gets them excited. It gets them hooked. You can put layers of thick paint on thin paint and that allows you to complete a painting in one sitting.
bob ross— Mike Flannagan (October 1, 1992) "TV Artist Bob Ross Watches Paint Dry, Turns It Into a Successful Career", The Knoxville News-Sentinel, p. B1.
Cultural freedom is in special danger today because so much of our life has been politicized. … With governments which are popular and free, but which allow political sanction to pressures building up against certain types of cultural expression, … the pressure … moves to condemn on grounds which are social and political, and its desire is for uniformity, standardization, consolidation, and all the other features of Gleichschaltung, as it moves to protect from criticism and even from realistic depiction something over which people have become politically excited. In our American experience, these pressures have been largely social.
richard weaver— “The Importance of Cultural Freedom,” p.20
Surelyarchitecture is the organization for pleasure of enclosed space. And what more magnificent enclosure than a town, a place, a place where the spirit is cuddled, made serene, made proud, happy, or excited depending on the ceremony, the day, the hour.
philip johnson— 1954 'The Seven Crutches of Architecture', informal talk to students, School of Architectural Design, Harvard University, 7 Dec. Published in Perspecta 3 (1955).
I get excited by the shape of a person's nose, the tone of their eyes, or the way their back looks when they're turned away from me. That's my reason for painting.
— 1991 In National Geographic, Jul.
Ethel was calm but she felt excited inside. Bernard has a big house said Mr S. gazing at Ethel he is inclined to be rich.
daisy ashford— Chapter 2 (The Young Visiters (1919))
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.
daniel boone— As quoted in the opening lines of "The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon; containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucke" in The Discovery, Settlement And present State of Kentucke (1784) by John Filson.
The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
ralph waldo emerson— The Divinity College Address (1838)
"This album is one of the best albums in the past 20 years. There's nothing that touches this album. And that sounds like I'm being cocky, but I'm just so excited."
brandon flowers— On Sam's Town
— Montgomery, James (May 2, 2006). "Killers' Next LP Will Show Strong Influence Of ... Bruce Springsteen!?" MTV.com Retrieved 2007-12-11
I don’t believe in fashion dictatorship, and I find that anybody who follows the dictates of fashion is a bit lost. I’m excited by style, not so much by fashion.
marc jacobs— Jonkers, Gert (2003). "Friendly homosexual fashion designer likes dogs but finds fashionable men terribly unsexy" buttmagazine.com (accessed April 19, 2007)
— On his perfect customer
At one point the driver said, "For God's sakes, you're rocking the boat back there." Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
jack kerouac— Part Three, Ch. 5
When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful.
Robert Nozick— The Examined Life (1989)
I have a dark side; it's been pretty well documented. It wouldn't be bad to show that in some light in my work...It's something I no longer fear doing and am actually excited about doing.
matthew perry— Lawrie Masterson (October 10, 2004) "Prime Time", The Sunday Telegraph, News Limited, p. V05.
It is my ambition that parents can send their children to school with the prospects that they are as interested and excited to learn on their last day of school as they were on the very first.
lars løkke rasmussen— From his New Year Address 1 January 2010
I am excited that Tanzania is the only country out of 53 African nations to host the relay. This is a rare opportunity for our nation and a challenge for the government and the people to promote sports.
ali mohamed shein— On the Olympic Torch relay in Dar es Salaam, 2008-04-13 [2]
I wonder how many members can realise what [the remilitarisation of the Rhineland] means not merely to the excited politicians in Paris, but to the French peasant in his hovel, to the mother who feels that once again the...peril has come near and that once again her children will be mowed down by the scythe of war.
austen chamberlain— Speech in the House of Commons (6 May, 1936).
I saw a bunch of the weirdest, oddest people I have ever met in my life , who thought different, and acted different, and even made love different. And they made me laugh , and get angry , and be happy , and be sad , and excited, and even fall in love a little....And they didn’t seem to be so weird or strange anymore.
samuel r. delany— Part 5, Chapter 1
I'm very excited about this wonderful opportunity to take part in the evolution of a company that is integral to the Hispanic community and a powerful force in all areas of the media.
gloria estefan— statement issued regarding appointment to board of directors of Univision Communications, miamiherald.com (June 9, 2007)
This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
george gissing— Summer, § VII, p. 89
Jerome never liked me -- preferred my sister who was a little fool excited by modern literature -- all swear-words and scatology -- before it became fashionable.
Peter Greenaway— Jerome's mother
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
William Butler Yeats— St. 2 (A Prayer For My Daughter)
There is a powerful tension in our relationship to technology . We are excited by egalitarianism and anonymity , but we constantly fight for our identity .
— David Owens, in Anonymity: The Power and Peril
I'm excited to be part of [Sexpo 2011]. Everyone has sex, it's meant to be fun.
— Daily News staff (24 August 2011). "Portraiture painful for penile artist". Daily News (South Africa: Independent Online): p. 2.
The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.
— Chapter XIX, paragraph 2, lines 1-6 (An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised))
Prayer, then, does not consist in sweet feelings, nor in the charms of an excited imagination, nor in that illumination of the intellect that traces with ease the sublimest truths of God; nor even in a certain consolation in the view of God; all these things are external gifts from His hand, in the absence of which love may exist even more purely, as the soul may then attach itself immediately and solely to God, instead of to His mercies.
— François Fénelon, p. 458. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Dedicate to you, I need you inspired, I need you excited, I don't wanna fight it.
drake— "Fire & Desire" (2016)
Piglet was so excited about the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more.
a. a. milne— From Winnie-the-Pooh (1926).
It is nearly impossible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings which are excited; wonder astonishment, and sublime devotion fill and elevate the mind .
— Charles Darwin, in A "pure Excess of Complexity": Tropical Surfeit, the Observing Subject, and ..., p.231
Even this miraculous event , which ought to have excited the wonder , the curiosity , or the devotion, of mankind , passed without notice in an age of science and history .
— Phlegon on Bible, in Discussion on the existence of God and the authenticity of the Bible ..., p.154
