Top 100 Quotes About Excites
#1. The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?
William Greider
#2. If you keep thinking about putting on a conference or being a Hollywood screenwriter, and you find the idea terrifies but intrigues you, it's probably a worthy endeavor for you. You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.
Derek Sivers
#3. Neon signs don't consume much power, but they look like they do. A cousin of fluorescent lighting, neon is actually quite energy efficient. A neon tube glows coolly when high-voltage, low-amperage electrical power excites the gas within it.
Virginia Postrel
#4. Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty
Dominic Lawson
#5. As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.
Milo Ventimiglia
#6. Every step closer to my soul excites the scornful laughter of my devils, those cowardly ear-whisperers and poison-mixers.
C. G. Jung
#7. The biggest neurological turn-on for people is other people. This is what really excites us. In reward terms, it's not money; it's not being given cash - that's nice - it's doing stuff with our peers, watching us, collaborating with us.
Tom Chatfield
#8. I think that television has become really, really interesting, in terms of character development. You can have 13 hours to develop a character, as opposed to 25 minutes in a movie. That excites me.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#9. Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Harold Pinter
#10. Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.
Jonathan Swift
#11. For me, one of my favorite parts of stop motion is not even the animating or the writing, but actually building. I always say that my favorite stage is just fabrication. It's just sitting on a workbench, making a little thing out of clay or whatever. That just totally excites me.
Kirsten Lepore
#12. It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.
Chuck Inglish
#13. Once we have driven away all that excites or affrights us, there ensues unbroken tranquility and enduring freedom.
Seneca.
#14. There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.
Thomas Paine
#15. The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.
Moby
#16. I don't want to get pigeonholed, and I want to try my hand at anything that excites me. I'm not just a Disney writer.
Kelly Marcel
#17. I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.
Laurieann Gibson
#18. You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.
Aaron Paul
#19. What we glean from travellers' vivid descriptions has a special charm; whatever is far off and suggestive excites our imagination; such pleasures tempt us far more than anything we may daily experience in the narrow circle of sedentary life.
Alexander Von Humboldt
#20. The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
Thomas Carlyle
#21. Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.
Virginia Woolf
#22. An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
William Hazlitt
#23. Beauty is that which excites the soul.
Gage Taylor
#24. For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.
Frank Sinatra
#25. A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
Orlando Bloom
#27. New preoccupations take the place of the old, hope excites more hope and ambition more ambition. They do not look for an end to their misery, but simply change the reason for it.
Seneca.
#28. I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.
Kelly Reilly
#31. Whence we may draw the general axiom, which never or rarely errs, that he who is the cause of another's greatness is himself undone, since he must work either by address or force, each of which excites distrust in the person raised to power.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#32. What excites the media is that someone has a great idea or vision and makes millions as a result. The reality is that rarely happens. It is competency that unlocks a person's potential.
Tim Clark excerpt from DO! the pursuit of xceptional execution
Kevin Kelly
#33. Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
Steven Soderbergh
#34. We all want a job or role that truly excites and engages us. This search requires both focus and flexibility, so I recommend adopting two concurrent goals: a long-term dream and an eighteen-month plan.
Sheryl Sandberg
#35. Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.
Diane Ackerman
#36. Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.
William Hazlitt
#37. I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
Wayne Knight
#38. Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
Tatiana Maslany
#39. He paused, I thought, like a man who is watching the effect of the terrors he excites, not from malignity but vanity, merely to magnify his own courage in encountering them.
Charles Robert Maturin
#40. An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.
Wayne Dyer
#41. What excites me is to know I don't have any limits, that it's quite an open project, more open than I thought it could be. To have this freedom to try very different things. I listen to lots of music from every genre.
Neige
#42. I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me.
Ali Larter
#43. When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.
Meredith Monk
#44. Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [ ... ] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.
Theodore Zeldin
#45. How can you use what most excites, angers, or upsets you to achieve what you want to be, do or experience?
Julie Connor
#46. Nothing in the world excites the culture today so much as a question. A question seems very appropriate to whatever you have in mind. Allowing your work to remain questionable is a way of satisfying your cultural condition.
Milton Resnick
#47. 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
#48. I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.
Christina Hendricks
#49. It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!
Timothy Dalton
#50. 'Blanche' opened a new door for me without really making me more famous. 'Blanche' was a risk, but that is the only thing that excites me in this profession. The knowledge that I am an actress who takes risks lifts my soul.
Lou Doillon
#51. I covet you like any good demon would." His other hand tightened at the back of my neck. "And my desire for you increases every waking second in a way that should frighten me, but really just excites me. But most of all, I love you,
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#52. Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.
Leonard Rossiter
#53. The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.
Henry Clay
#54. The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.
Terence McKenna
#55. One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow ... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.
Victor Hugo
#56. When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson
#57. I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.
Tracy K. Smith
#58. The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.
John Dryden
#59. I have stuff I'm interested in working on, and I'd rather work on what excites me than complete projects from the past that I've grown bored with.
Chester Brown
#60. It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
Jill Scott
#61. It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
Robin Wright
#62. Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious
Yann Martel
#63. In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
George Santayana
#65. We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.
Henry David Thoreau
#66. I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.
Steve Vai
#67. You have to find something that you have to obsess over if you're making a movie about it. As a director, you have to be able to pick something that excites you enough that you can breathe it every day.
Jon Favreau
#68. Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Francis Bacon
#69. 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
#70. What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.
Ruth Wilson
#71. I look for the role that excites me and work with whoever that director happens to be, wherever he wants to shoot the film.
Russell Crowe
#72. Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
Raquel Welch
#73. His favourite entertainments were intellectual rather than social; he went to public lectures and visited the observatory, the theatre and the opera. 'Tragedy excites the soul,' he later told one of his secretaries, 'lifts the heart, can and ought to create heroes.'24
Andrew Roberts
#74. I enjoy working on new, different types of characters. Playing a range is what excites me.
Juliet Landau
#75. There are some quite funny things about getting famous and stuff, but I think there comes a point where you have to think to yourself, "Well, am I doing this because I want to go to a party and meet Britney Spears? Or am I doing it because I want to create something that excites me?"
Jarvis Cocker
#76. Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#77. It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
Carroll O'Connor
#78. I want to do stuff that excites me and is enjoyable.
Jamie Hewlett
#79. Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
George Saintsbury
#80. Now, when any vicious simpleton excites my disgust by his paltry ribaldry ...
Charlotte Bronte
#81. If nothing excites you and nothing makes you wonder, you are going to miss all of the wonderful things that life can offer.
Debasish Mridha
#82. I'm never satisfied with my performance. I want to keep pushing myself. The great thing about being an actor is you're always learning. That's what excites me about the job and what continues to drive me.
Drew Fuller
#83. What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.
Karl Malone
#84. One of the things that helped me a lot as I was starting out in my career was that I got myself to France and Europe and California, and spent time immersing myself in those culinary traditions. I'd encourage future chefs to dive into whatever culture most excites them, and that they want to cook.
Rick Tramonto
#85. I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.
Callum Blue
#86. It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.
Edmund Burke
#87. I like to see how other people work and be part of their stuff and see what I can do to be part of their worlds. Its a pretty big challenge, and that excites me.
Brendon Urie
#88. In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.
John Reed
#90. Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.
Joseph R. Bartlett
#91. Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites the love of virtue, and dissipates, or at least diminishes, the fear of death.
Francesco Petrarca
#92. Doing the show. That 10 AM feeling when the doors open up. Forget about it! Also, my son coming home with a respectable grade on something that I know he's worked hard on. And good health excites me, too.
Wendy Williams
#93. It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
Eric Hoffer
#94. What excites me is the idea of doing a record that's pretty clean and focused on songs. I've rushed a lot with previous albums and there's not a rush now - it's not a race.
Ty Segall
#95. I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
Umberto Eco
#96. What excites us the most or likewise scares us the most is when something is exactly what it says it is. And when it comes to Christmas, we're going to end up finding ourselves on one side of that line or the other.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#97. The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.
Matt Mullenweg
#98. I'm about to cross a line with you ... a line there will be no hope of me ever returning from. And I'm terrified because the thought of you excites me.
J.L. Vallance
#99. There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I need to learn from it.
Rachael Yamagata
#100. I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.
Edgar Allan Poe
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