Excite Quotes

166 Excite quotes by 144 unique authors

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those… — Samuel Adams
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… — Charles Darwin
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but… — Johannes Peter Muller
I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me... I'm looking at a… — Craig McCaw
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would… — Charles Caleb Colton
Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns. — Tacitus
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or… — Walter Pater
It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words, and the weird… — Salman Rushdie
The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy. — Alain de Botton
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,… — Eduard Hanslick
If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of… — Lawren Harris
Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me. — Walt Disney
Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me. — Walt Disney
I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of… — Hugh Howey
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… — Mike Jeffries
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. — Samuel Johnson
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. — Charles Lamb
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me… — Anne Lamott
I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately… — Christian Louboutin
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them… — Anne Sullivan Macy
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… — Tatiana Maslany
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different… — James Otis
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. — Quintilian
I don't know that I've ever been someone who's interested in existing on tour. I have a lot of interests and a lot of other… — Andy Roddick

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