Exhilarates Quotes & Sayings

I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies. — Abigail Spencer

There is no almost in giving your all. — Wes Fesler

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea. — Sergio Aragones

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly. — Helen Rowland

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truly it is glorious, our being here. — Rainer Maria Rilke

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. — Mignon McLaughlin

It doesn't matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice. — Steve Krug

Impossibility, like wine
Exhilarates the man
Who tastes it; Possibility
Is flavoreless. — Emily Dickinson

I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please? — James Dickey

The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere. It appeals only to the subtlest senses - the imagination's vision, & the imagination's hearing - & the moral sense, & the intellect. This writing that you do, that so thrills you, that so rocks & exhilarates you, as if you were dancing next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else. — Annie Dillard

All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates. — Robert Macfarlane

The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves. — Joseph Joubert

The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better shared with friends. You can't really get high with a bad attitude. Kindness and sweetness exhilarates your stone. Stolen grass doesn't get you as high. The old hippie ethic really counts — Stephen Gaskin

I don't want any minister to pray for me. But if you want a minister there to pray for the crowd, I won't object. — Edward H. Rulloff

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition. — Edmund Burke

Every line from you exhilarates my spirits and gives me a glow of pleasure, but your kind congratulations are solid comfort to my heart. The little strength of mind and the considerable strenght of body that I once possessed appear to be all gone, but while I breathe I shall be your friend. — David McCullough

I look at him and he doesn't scare me. He lures me. He tempts me, exhilarates me. He makes me want to claim him as if I'm claiming back a part of me that was once lost. Makes me want to tame him. Let him tame me. — Katy Evans

To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning in into slumber. The other arts make no such retreat - some because they use visible and hence vital formulas, others because they live from human life itself.
This isn't the case with literature. Literature stimulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings a language no one uses, because no one talks in verse. — Fernando Pessoa

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business. — Sara Sheridan

It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake. — Henry David Thoreau

When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It was such a Mark thing to say, a frank statement of his emotions. Because faeries couldn't lie, she thought, and he had grown up around them, and learned how to speak of love and loving with Kieran, who was proud and arrogant but always truthful. Faeries did not associate truth with weakness and vulnerability, as humans did. — Cassandra Clare

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can't fight your way out of as easily. — Ally Condie

In short, what you are doing is very beautiful but grammatically it doesn't change a thing. At the moment when you most appear to be a united voi, a second person plural, you are two tu's, more separate and circumscribed than before. — Italo Calvino

A good part of any day in Los Angeles is spent driving, alone, through streets devoid of meaning to the driver, which is one reason the place exhilarates some people, and floods others with an amorphous unease. — Joan Didion

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. — Friedrich Nietzsche