Excite Quotes
166 Excite quotes by 144 unique authors
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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…
— Chloe Sevigny
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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…
— James Surowiecki
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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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…
— Alan Thicke
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
— Orson Welles
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This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back…
— Denis Johnson
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
— Dorothy Parker
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For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat,…
— Anne Lamott
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You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
— Gabriela Mistral
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I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry…
— John Adams
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There is a sign in the heavens Another light in the darkness A better time is beginning There is a fire star coming I see…
— Chris d'Lacey
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The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to…
— James Madison
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There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire…
— Gilbert Adair
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We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of…
— Thomas Merton
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The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?
— Tim Ferriss
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Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or…
— Edmund Burke
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Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found…
— Robert Frost
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The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the…
— David Foster Wallace
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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…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to…
— Agnes Repplier
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Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we…
— Mark Twain
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