Top 100 Quotes About Excite
#1. Emotion manifests itself simultaneously with an alteration of the internal secretions, the circulation, blood pressure, respiration, etc., but equally, unconscious contents excite, and in neurotic cases disturb, the sympathetic nervous system either directly, or indirectly, via the emotions aroused.
Erich Neumann
#2. Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.
Michael Morpurgo
#3. A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
William C. Bryant
#5. If you can't frighten yourself, I don't think you can excite other people. And I like being frightened.
Erol Alkan
#6. Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.
Henry David Thoreau
#7. The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson
#8. Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together ... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.
Alan Thicke
#9. Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.
Andy Hargreaves
#10. I have about four different endeavors I'm going after right now. They all excite me in different ways. I'm all about keeping as many irons in the fire as possible. I'm writing music, trying to write a book (aren't we all?), putting a festival together, speaking ... It keeps life interesting.
Kevin Griffin
#11. I've always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me.
Neneh Cherry
#12. Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.
Edmund Burke
#13. Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me ...
Anthony Bourdain
#14. [D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#15. There is a time lag between the activation of brain systems that excite our emotions and impulses and the maturation of brain systems that allow us to check these feelings and urgings - it's like driving a car with a sensitive gas pedal and bad brakes.
Laurence Steinberg
#16. Should women read, Miss Caine? There's a question for you. Does it excite them too much?
John Boyne
#17. A lot of people don't belong in our clothes, and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely. Those companies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody: young, old, fat, skinny. But then you become totally vanilla. You don't alienate anybody, but you don't excite anybody, either.
Mike Jeffries
#18. There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker
Mike Figgis
#19. Houses, I have come to believe, like love, like nature herself, should not reassure, should not attempt to soothe, or give comfort, but should, rather, excite.
Patrick McGrath
#20. The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.
James Surowiecki
#21. Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness.
Laozi
#22. I only do numbers/acts that excite me, or I connect to personally. I never phone it in. It's about finding the balance between what my audience wants and what I want to give them. That sweet spot in the vendiagram.
Jinkx Monsoon
#23. Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#25. Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.
Theodore Roosevelt
#26. The prospect of being immortal doesn't excite me, but the prospect of being a materialistic idol for four years does appeal.
Marc Bolan
#27. All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#28. By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft
#29. Words are a powerful aphrodisiac. They have the ability to awaken emotion, to excite the minds and senses. The right words entice, creep and crawl along the skin like the sensuous touch of a skilled lover. THAT my friends, is truly magical indeed ...
Shan O' Connor
#30. As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge.
John Adams
#31. As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.
Charles Darwin
#32. Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make a soul tremble in a den like this, where pain must hold its tongue, poverty remain cheerful, and despair retain its self respect.
Honore De Balzac
#33. I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials ... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.
Francis Bacon
#34. True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered with confusion of face.
Jane Porter
#35. Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.
Leonard Susskind
#36. Practise wonder today - be present, begin again, know nothing, and allow everything to surprise you, inspire you, excite you, entertain you, teach you. Be fully open to life, today, and let yourself live wonder-fully.
Robert Holden
#37. I turned my face away. She should not act thus. She ought
not to excite my imagination with such displays of heavenly
innocence and happiness, nor awaken my heart from its slumbers,
in which it dreams of the worthlessness of life!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#38. The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#39. A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.
Jack Welch
#40. Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.
Matthew Arnold
#41. If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you'll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.
George Saunders
#43. There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
Paul Gauguin
#44. I specialize in cool inside movie news. Specifically, the news from movies that excite us fans.
Harry Knowles
#45. People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.
Henry Ward Beecher
#46. I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.
Jack White
#47. Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.
John Boyne
#48. I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.
Thaddeus Stevens
#49. The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
Mary Astell
#50. If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?
Pietro Metastasio
#51. Pessimism is too easy, even delicious, the badge and plume of intellectuals everywhere. It absolves the thinking classes of solutions. We excite ourselves with dark thoughts in plays, poems, novels, movies.
Ian McEwan
#52. Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
Dorothy Parker
#53. Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.
Eliza Leslie
#54. What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
Robert Frost
#55. Muse. Mu-se. It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you. And I don't think it's necessarily a man 'taking' from a woman. It can go both ways, both can stimulate, excite.
Chloe Sevigny
#56. When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.
Nicholas Lea
#57. Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.
David Hume
#58. I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
James Broughton
#59. Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.
Jessica Williams
#60. Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#61. I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
Tatiana Maslany
#62. Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.
Maximillian Degenerez
#63. His second ... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
Jane Austen
#64. Then let's treat all these holy texts as stories, fictions, and imperfections that could excite us to tears or erections.
Rawi Hage
#65. The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.
Rand Paul
#66. Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.
Charles Caleb Colton
#67. A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot.
Joe Vitale
#68. I never dreamed of dancing on television or anything like that. It's more of things that come along that excite me and inspire me.
Derek Hough
#69. The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.
Henry David Thoreau
#70. Today's generation want leaders who excite them and ignite them. They want leaders who are real.
Gabrielle Dolan
#71. My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things.
Dante Hall
#72. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?
Timothy Ferriss
#73. I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
Eric Cantona
#74. On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other.
Eduard Hanslick
#75. Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven ...
Adam Clarke
#76. You should always think about things that excite you and that you can learn from.
Dominic Cooper
#77. On your journey to achievement, you should never be without good positive materials and people who will encourage you, excite you and give you a reason to move forward.
John Patrick Hickey
#78. Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.
Norman Mailer
#79. Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
William James
#80. Take the things from America that speak to you, that excite you, that inspire you, and be the Americans we all want to know; then cook it up and sell it back to them for $28.99. Cue Funk Flex to drop bombs on this. All my peoples from the boat, let 'em know: WEOUTCHEA.
Eddie Huang
#81. The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#82. Yes, I know this narrative is crowded with beautiful women - Mrs. Pearson, Mrs. Maycott, Mrs. Lavien, Mrs. Bingham. We might form a cricket team of beautiful women. I cannot help it if they are the ones who excite my notice and so trouble myself to describe.
David Liss
#83. The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire, or loathing. Desire urges us to possess, to go to something. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didactic, are therefore improper arts
James Joyce
#84. I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a novel? I may do one day. But the simple answer is that it does not excite the novelistic part of my brain; it does not fire it up.
Sebastian Faulks
#85. In the past, (GM) produced a lot of very excellent vehicles but somehow they didn't excite anybody,
Bob Lutz
#86. Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well as pretty
Louisa May Alcott
#87. An elliptical machine does not excite me as much as a Gothic novel and a chicken chimichanga.
Leah Marie Brown
#88. Skype is kind of amazing - look at Skype in the classroom - those are things that can really excite your organization. That's what has been really great to me.
Tony Bates
#89. I soon had to admit that what I did by myself couldn't excite me, only what Lila touched became important.
Elena Ferrante
#91. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since whatever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapors rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.
Jack Vance
#92. The awful mysteries of the Christian faith and worship were concealed from the eyes of strangers, and even of catechumens, with an affected secrecy, which served to excite their wonder and curiosity.
Edward Gibbon
#93. A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point.
Ronald Colman
#94. Then you realize that the preparation and the planning of this small army of people trying to head to the single aim of creating a work that's going to excite people is very risky. Of course, the odds are that it's not going to work out because there are too many possibilities of it going wrong.
Ciaran Hinds
#95. Things that excite me are these four different bands: Wire, with a song called 'Champs,' Misfits, with a song called 'Hybrid Moments,' R. Stevie Moore, and Wipers 'Wait A Minute.'
Albert Hammond Jr.
#96. Seriously, if people tune in and watch 'Falling Skies,' they will see a show that will excite them, move them, and will leave them wanting more!
Maxim Knight
#97. There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.
Michael Phelps
#98. Optimize and take flight!!! Stay educated in your field, excite those around you and be energizing!! That is the E3 system, its simple yet so rewarding!
Lasean Rinique
#99. From the moment you say 'action,' this is the fun part - things should happen that surprise you, excite you, scare you, turn you on, make you laugh. If things aren't surprising you, when you say 'cut,' whisper things to the actors that will make them do things that do surprise you.
Jill Soloway
