Exciting Quotes

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Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people… — Ernest Hemingway
Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself? — Jamaica Kincaid
When you’re in between dreams, you get to lean back and relax and stop trying so hard. Trying to be somebody, I mean. It’s not… — Barbara Park
... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long. — Dodie Smith
The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the… — Arundhati Roy
I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in my… — Augusten Burroughs
His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing. — Dorothy Parker
Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from… — Chetan Bhagat
Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's… — C.S. Lewis
I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who… — Cory Doctorow
You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them — Evelyn Waugh
I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving. — Craig Ferguson
Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I mean, what's better than having the person you love love you? That's pretty exciting. It's pretty amazing, actually. It's like a miracle or something… — Aya Nakahara
I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in… — John Patrick Shanley
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it. — Konrad Lorenz
Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be… — Bill Bryson
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child… — Roald Dahl
I’m a goddess of destruction. Tell me honestly that you find nothing exciting about the idea of a billion people screaming out for mercy when… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always… — Ambeth R. Ocampo
See how exciting Anthropology is? He’s a leading expert in ancient Greece. Now you should all change your majors so that you can ogle men… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover… — Lev Grossman
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less… — George Orwell
Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that… — Juliet Marillier
So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the… — Virginia Woolf

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