The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
Martin Van Buren

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
Ty Cobb

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.
Brian May

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William Wordsworth

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
Lucian Freud

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
Fanny Kemble

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
Thomas R. Cech

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
Christa McAuliffe

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.
Shawn Ashmore

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.
John Hay Whitney

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.
Bernard Ebbers

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Billy Graham

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
Sean Penn

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Charles Dickens

There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions.
Sid Waddell

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
Theodore White

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
Millicent Carey McIntosh

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.
Trey Anastasio

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
Sidney Sheldon