Everything I do with you feels like an adventure.
—Steph Campbell in Depths
Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
—Cavett Robert
Adventure is just bad planning.
—Roald Amundsen
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
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
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
Our parents got divorced when we were kids, and it was kind of cool. We got to go to divorce court with them. It was like a game show. My mom won the house and car. We were all excited. My dad got some luggage.
—Tom Arnold
There is no music like that music, no drama like the drama of the saints rejoicing, the sinners moaning, the tambourines racing, and all those voices coming together and crying holy unto the Lord.… I have never seen anything to equal the fire and excitement that sometimes, without warning, fill a church, causing the church, as Leadbelly and so many others have testified, to "rock.
—James Baldwin
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
—Donald Trump
Life is full of so much that you refuse to let yourself experience. The blanketing comfort of love, the fulfillment of contagious laughter, the peace of finding true joy, the butterflies of uncontainable excitement… these are all things that make up life. They should never be taken for granted.
—L.B. Simmons in The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller