excitement

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
08edfcc	"Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." 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." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. "	disappointment emotions english excitement fail hatred language sadness	Jeffrey Eugenides
649791e	They sicken of the calm who know the storm.	excitement storm women	Dorothy Parker
daca326	Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.	dreaming dreams excitement imagination inspirational planning possibility	Gloria Steinem
4450ec0	But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.	crazy excitement fireworks hyper life wild	Raymond Carver
cd23325	I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.	change excitement inspirational	Sylvia Plath
73a0fc5	Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.	enthusiasm excitement hidden	Patrick Süskind
c572f51	I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.	excitement nerves	Charlotte Brontë
c20fa89	Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.	excitement libba-bray	Libba Bray
43f5a3f	Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?	ageing colour excitement perspective youth	Julian Barnes
abbaee5	All I really want to write about is what happened just before he left. But if I let myself start with that I might forget some of the things which came first. And every word he said is of deepest value to me.	euphoria excitement	Dodie Smith
4549d09	"My toes curled against the soft leather sofa pf my flip-flops and my throat felt scratchy as i forced the words out. "I'm...I'm new." There! I did it. I spoke. Take that, everyone! Words were totally my bitch."	exaggeration excitement humor	Jennifer L. Armentrout
0a00eb3	"The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes were instantly soaked. She flung up her arms to the sky. Power ran to her fingertips. Excitement was communicated from the waiting trees, and the orchard, and the paddock; the intensity of their secret life caught at her and made her run. It was nothing like the excitement of ordinary looking forward, of birthday presents, of Christmas stockings, but the pull of a magnet - her grandfather had shown her once how it worked, little needles springing to the jaws - and now night and the sky above were a vast magnet, and the things that waited below were needles, caught up in the great demand. ("The Pool")"	excitement excitement-of-youth night youth	Daphne du Maurier
6de9451	Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?	edge excitement forbidden pleasure romance sweet taboo	Robin Hobb
a51544c	Mr. Galliano wore his big top-hat very much on one side of his head, so much so that Jimmy really wondered why it didn't fall off. 'When Galliano wears his hat on one side the circus is taking lots of money,' said Lotta to him. 'But when you see him wearing it straight up, then you know things are going badly. He gets into a bad temper then, and I hide under the caravan when I see him coming. I've never seen his hat so much on one side before!' Jimmy thought that circus ways were very extraordinary. Even hats seemed to share in the excitement!	excitement hats top-hat	Enid Blyton
86820c5	One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end	excitement fear ocean whale wild world	Douglas Coupland
0488a80	I feel like a child who has found a wonderful trail in the woods. Countless others have gone before and blazed the trail, but to the child it's as new and fresh as if it had never been walked before. The child is invariably anxious for others to join in the great adventure. It's something that can only be understood by actual experience. Those who've begun the journey, and certainly those who've gone further than I, will readily understand what I am saying.	discovery excitement money stewardship	Randy Alcorn
236bf91	When I don't know what I'm doing, I look like I don't know what I'm doing. When I'm excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I am lost, which is frequently, I look lost.	excitement nervousness	Elizabeth Gilbert
062ff0e	Joining a gang is like sky diving without a parachute. Oh, at first it's all fun, as you take on gravity in a thrilling and exhilarating free fall towards earth. The truth is, anything that is risky and dangerous always starts out as fun. But the odds are always stacked in gravity's favor, for you will eventually come face to face with the earth, and mother earth always wins those battles. The same thing can be said about being in a gang.	at-risk-communities at-risk-youth church-youth-group community-policing consequence crime-prevention dangerous early-death end-result excitement exhilarating free-fall fun gang-intervention gang-involvement gang-members joining-a-gang joy-ride mother-earth parachute risk-taking risky-behaviors sky-diving street-life thrilling thug-life youngsters youth-clubs youth-programs	Drexel Deal
4ad4890	The 1789 Revolution had given the French a political script of unequalled drama. For the better part of the following century the temptation to reenact the play was irresistible.	excitement instant-gratification	Niall Ferguson
474a298	They could smell a strangeness in the breeze that blew faintly on their faces down the hill; a beckoning smell of salt and seaweed and excitement.	excitement sea	Susan Cooper

08edfcc

"Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." 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." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. "

disappointment emotions english excitement fail hatred language sadness

Jeffrey Eugenides

649791e

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

excitement storm women

Dorothy Parker

daca326

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

dreaming dreams excitement imagination inspirational planning possibility

Gloria Steinem

4450ec0

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

crazy excitement fireworks hyper life wild

Raymond Carver

cd23325

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

change excitement inspirational

Sylvia Plath

73a0fc5

Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.

enthusiasm excitement hidden

Patrick Süskind

c572f51

I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

excitement nerves

Charlotte Brontë

c20fa89

Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.

excitement libba-bray

Libba Bray

43f5a3f

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?

ageing colour excitement perspective youth

Julian Barnes

abbaee5

All I really want to write about is what happened just before he left. But if I let myself start with that I might forget some of the things which came first. And every word he said is of deepest value to me.

euphoria excitement

Dodie Smith

4549d09

"My toes curled against the soft leather sofa pf my flip-flops and my throat felt scratchy as i forced the words out. "I'm...I'm new." There! I did it. I spoke. Take that, everyone! Words were totally my bitch."

exaggeration excitement humor

Jennifer L. Armentrout

0a00eb3

"The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes were instantly soaked. She flung up her arms to the sky. Power ran to her fingertips. Excitement was communicated from the waiting trees, and the orchard, and the paddock; the intensity of their secret life caught at her and made her run. It was nothing like the excitement of ordinary looking forward, of birthday presents, of Christmas stockings, but the pull of a magnet - her grandfather had shown her once how it worked, little needles springing to the jaws - and now night and the sky above were a vast magnet, and the things that waited below were needles, caught up in the great demand. ("The Pool")"

excitement excitement-of-youth night youth

Daphne du Maurier

6de9451

Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?

edge excitement forbidden pleasure romance sweet taboo

Robin Hobb

a51544c

Mr. Galliano wore his big top-hat very much on one side of his head, so much so that Jimmy really wondered why it didn't fall off. 'When Galliano wears his hat on one side the circus is taking lots of money,' said Lotta to him. 'But when you see him wearing it straight up, then you know things are going badly. He gets into a bad temper then, and I hide under the caravan when I see him coming. I've never seen his hat so much on one side before!' Jimmy thought that circus ways were very extraordinary. Even hats seemed to share in the excitement!

excitement hats top-hat

Enid Blyton

86820c5

One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end

excitement fear ocean whale wild world

Douglas Coupland

0488a80

I feel like a child who has found a wonderful trail in the woods. Countless others have gone before and blazed the trail, but to the child it's as new and fresh as if it had never been walked before. The child is invariably anxious for others to join in the great adventure. It's something that can only be understood by actual experience. Those who've begun the journey, and certainly those who've gone further than I, will readily understand what I am saying.

discovery excitement money stewardship

Randy Alcorn

236bf91

When I don't know what I'm doing, I look like I don't know what I'm doing. When I'm excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I am lost, which is frequently, I look lost.

excitement nervousness

Elizabeth Gilbert

062ff0e

Joining a gang is like sky diving without a parachute. Oh, at first it's all fun, as you take on gravity in a thrilling and exhilarating free fall towards earth. The truth is, anything that is risky and dangerous always starts out as fun. But the odds are always stacked in gravity's favor, for you will eventually come face to face with the earth, and mother earth always wins those battles. The same thing can be said about being in a gang.

at-risk-communities at-risk-youth church-youth-group community-policing consequence crime-prevention dangerous early-death end-result excitement exhilarating free-fall fun gang-intervention gang-involvement gang-members joining-a-gang joy-ride mother-earth parachute risk-taking risky-behaviors sky-diving street-life thrilling thug-life youngsters youth-clubs youth-programs

Drexel Deal

4ad4890

The 1789 Revolution had given the French a political script of unequalled drama. For the better part of the following century the temptation to reenact the play was irresistible.

excitement instant-gratification

Niall Ferguson

474a298

They could smell a strangeness in the breeze that blew faintly on their faces down the hill; a beckoning smell of salt and seaweed and excitement.

excitement sea

Susan Cooper