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The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars. -- James Surowiecki
Excite the mind, and the hand will reach for the pocket. -- Harry Gordon Selfridge
Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. -- Samuel Johnson
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. -- Quintilian
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. -- Charles Lamb
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter. -- Lucian Freud
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. -- Orson Welles
There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't interesting. I was kind of going through the motions. -- Michael Phelps
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. -- William C. Bryant
Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. -- Ray Bradbury
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul. -- James Otis
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. -- Zaha Hadid
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. -- Anne Sullivan
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me. -- Rani Mukerji
I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me. -- Mark Hyman
This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Muse. Mu-se. It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you. And I don't think it's necessarily a man 'taking' from a woman. It can go both ways, both can stimulate, excite. -- Chloe Sevigny
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. -- Mary Astell
Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness. -- Alan Thicke
When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope. -- Matthew Bourne
I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet. -- Tatiana Maslany
So as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve. I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles. -- Anne Hathaway
When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. -- Anne Lamott
Getting up quite late in the morning, going and trying to clean my bikes - I have quite a few of them in Ranchi - spending some time with my family, my parents and friends. Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass. These are the sort of things that really excite me. -- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be. -- Christian Louboutin
Great contests generally excite great animosities. -- Livy
Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness. -- Laozi
Music does not excite until it is performed. -- Benjamin Britten
I try to excite myself so I stay crazy. -- Jenny Holzer
Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me. -- Walt Disney
It's important to excite the imagination of a woman. -- Oscar de la Renta
Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways. -- William Godwin
Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you. -- Jessica Williams
Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously. -- Francis Bacon
The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion. -- James Broughton
A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot. -- Joe Vitale
My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge. -- Garry Kasparov
I choose questions to work on according to how much they excite me. -- Eric Maskin
A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point. -- Ronald Colman
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me. -- Rihanna
What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen! -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies. -- Pauline Kael
What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite. -- Robert Frost
I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love...... -- Jimmy Buffett
There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker -- Mike Figgis
Super-stardom doesn't scare or excite me. It's just another ingredient added to my world. -- Aeriel Miranda
Sure, beauty has the power to excite men. But so does a box of donuts. -- Susan Jane Gilman
You should always think about things that excite you and that you can learn from. -- Dominic Cooper
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour. -- Paul Gauguin
I specialize in cool inside movie news. Specifically, the news from movies that excite us fans. -- Harry Knowles
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble. -- Marya Mannes
You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul. -- Gabriela Mistral
The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me. -- Hanneli Mustaparta
Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us. -- Andy Hargreaves
Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the past, (GM) produced a lot of very excellent vehicles but somehow they didn't excite anybody, -- Bob Lutz
When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience. -- Nicholas Lea
To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength. -- Samuel Johnson
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. -- William James
I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us. -- Michael Morpurgo
If you can't frighten yourself, I don't think you can excite other people. And I like being frightened. -- Erol Alkan
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter -- Lucian Freud
A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me. -- Walt Disney
The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy. -- Alain de Botton
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Usually I bring very attractive women with me to excite interest. I mean, it's a type of, like, strangers-with-candy situation. -- Kehinde Wiley
A lot of men said they were jealous of me because my shoes excite women in a way they can't -- Christian Louboutin
By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy. -- George Bancroft
[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. -- George Bancroft
The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me? -- Tim Ferriss
A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite. -- Jack Welch
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. -- Dorothy Parker
I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker. -- Mark Twain
The prospect of being immortal doesn't excite me, but the prospect of being a materialistic idol for four years does appeal. -- Marc Bolan
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. -- William Hazlitt
The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when? -- Yasunari Kawabata
When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us. -- Hermann Hesse
In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object. -- John Dewey
Driving is something really special for me. Even women doesn't excite me as much as racing cars! I guess I'm just becoming old. -- Michele Alboreto
Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult. -- Dhirubhai Ambani
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words. -- Samuel Johnson
I want to be a working actor; I want to do jobs that excite me and challenge me, and I want to something fun. -- Nathan Fillion
You have to do things that excite you; you have to have a passion for your work. Otherwise you're just a face on the screen. -- Ed Westwick
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself. -- Peter Abelard
But what those critics don't know is that these same assets that excite me in the chase often, once they are acquired, leave me bored. -- Donald Trump
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns. -- Tacitus
If you can't excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in? -- Steve Irwin
Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit. -- Maximillian Degenerez
I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life. -- LeBron James
Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole new level. -- David Finckel
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. -- Matthew Arnold
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration. -- Matthew Arnold
I've always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me. -- Neneh Cherry
I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me. -- Eric Cantona
If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity? -- Pietro Metastasio
Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason. -- David Hume
I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information. -- Anthony Bourdain
It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words, and the weird words excite them. -- Salman Rushdie
If doing a good act in public will excite others to do more good, then 'Let your light shine to all.' Miss no opportunity to do good. -- John Wesley
Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean! -- W.S. Gilbert
It's not that often that you get to have a large commercial success and then have something that you want to do that you can excite people about. -- Christopher Nolan
True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered with confusion of face. -- Jane Porter
When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer. -- Madame de Stael
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable. -- Walter Pater
On your journey to achievement, you should never be without good positive materials and people who will encourage you, excite you and give you a reason to move forward. -- John Patrick Hickey
I don't know that I've ever been someone who's interested in existing on tour. I have a lot of interests and a lot of other things that excite me. -- Andy Roddick
Skype is kind of amazing - look at Skype in the classroom - those are things that can really excite your organization. That's what has been really great to me. -- Tony Bates
The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age. -- Henry David Thoreau
I have come to realize that my stupid gestures excites women alot, and if I'm really stupid, i will dare to take them to bed and excite them even more. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons. -- Charles Darwin
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects. -- Samuel Adams

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