More quotations tagged with “excitement”
The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again.… The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
—J. G. Ballard
You know how it feels right before a tornado hits? I mean when the sky’s still clear, but the wind’s starting to cool off and change direction. You know something’s coming, but you don’t always know what. That’s how things feel to me right now.
—P.C. Cast in Betrayed
Adventure is just bad planning.
—Roald Amundsen
Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
—Cavett Robert