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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. -- Winston Churchill
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. -- Charles Baudelaire
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- W. Somerset Maugham
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. -- Adrienne Rich
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. -- Denis Waitley
There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy. -- W. Clement Stone
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. -- John Ruskin
Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space. -- Susan Orlean
Exhilarating. Radical Grace moved me to tears with its portrayal of good people putting their beliefs into action in ways that transcend all ideological boundaries. -- Roger Ebert
Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity. -- Vladimir Nabokov
It's an exhilarating play, and you come off tired, but thrilled. -- Bill Irwin
The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned. -- Kevin Spacey
You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating. -- Nicki Minaj
Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator. -- Maria Semple
When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely empowering and exhilarating. -- Billy Porter
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. -- Alexander Chase
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating -- Jean Anouilh
Working with real wolves has been exhilarating. They're so amazing. They're these beautiful, brilliant animals and they're great to work with. -- Kelly Overton
In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing. -- John Lithgow
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing. -- Sharon Stone
There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine. -- Neil Gaiman
Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins. -- Joe Klein
Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed. -- Lynda Barry
I just learned how to scuba dive. I'd been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating. -- Cheryl Hines
I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life. -- Janet Suzman
Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep. -- Edward Hoagland
Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted. -- Emma Stone
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end. -- Thomas Anthony Dooley III
I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating. -- Sebastian Faulks
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. -- Camille Paglia
Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one. -- Eleanor Catton
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never! -- Edna Ferber
My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating. -- Sylvia Earle
I've constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now I'm just a little more ladylike and fearless. You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating. -- Nicki Minaj
Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating. -- Francesca Lia Block
I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual. -- Steven Wright
Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won't have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn't take much for spending to spiral out of control. -- Ryan Holmes
It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better. -- Atifete Jahjaga
I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating. -- Drew Barrymore
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can't get it out of your mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals. -- Bob Proctor
Courage is exhilarating. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating. -- Madeleine Peyroux
Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating. -- Anita Shreve
A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating. -- Jason Mantzoukas
After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all. -- A. S. W. Rosenbach
Riding a Dragon is amazing, exhilarating, and murder on the thighs. -- Bryan Fields
Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous. -- Stephen King
Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking. -- Junot Diaz
The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. -- Pico Iyer
Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back. -- Storm Jameson
I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating. -- Lily King
Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime... -- John Green
A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating. -- Jodi Picoult
There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating. -- Jean Rhys
Intimacy with GOD is most exhilarating, most amazing, most exciting and most rewarding of all. -- TemitOpe Ibrahim
When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating! -- Laura Marano
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science. -- Brian Greene
Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing. -- Brenda Poinsett
It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating. -- Stephen King
Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard. -- Monica Raymund
To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me. -- Louis C. K.
Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading. -- Eric Hoffer
I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next. -- Raymond E. Feist
It is so exhilarating to realize that this is all here for our expansion and for our pleasure. -- Esther Hicks
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening. -- Abraham Maslow
Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. -- Buzz Aldrin
I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions. -- Jane Goodall
I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating. -- Cate Blanchett
I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better. -- A. J. Jacobs
Life can be just black and white, but with imagination, life is a kaleidoscope of exhilarating colors and breathtaking adventures. -- Wes Adamson
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating. -- Jean Anouilh
It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't. -- Robin Williams
Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating. -- Lykke Li
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten's prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction. -- Sam Lipsyte
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air. -- Augusten Burroughs
If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating. -- Dolores Huerta
Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. -- Bob Proctor
Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons. -- Hannah Fidell
After an exhilarating whitewater ride through America's love-hate relationship with its rivers, Daniel McCool leaves us inspired and hopeful for a happy ending. -- Michael Brune
I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs. -- Julie Christie
Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness. -- Louis Kronenberger
What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny. -- Sven Birkerts
In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely, and then act boldly. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial. -- Sloane Crosley
Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way. -- Sebastian Coe
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm a tomboy. I really love sports. I'm really looking forward to being the sniper gal, running around and shooting zombies. I find that really exhilarating. -- Laurie Holden
One of the exhilarating parts of falling in love is discovering new things about one another, and seeing the world from a different point of view. -- Nicholas Sparks
I just learned how to scuba dive. Id been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating. -- Cheryl Hines
Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating. -- Sue Thoele
Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action. -- Ayn Rand
Through the dry phrases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action. -- Ayn Rand
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I would actually love to fly. I think that that would be probably the most exhilarating feeling, and as close as you can get to true freedom. -- Ali Larter
Fire walking is an act of faith. I don't know why it works. I don't know why people don't die doing it. I found it very exhilarating. -- Chris Kilham
My first big show was with Tim McGraw and Mark Chesnutt, and that was overwhelming. There was probably 25,000 people there. I was nervous, (but it) was exhilarating. -- Lee Ann Womack
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Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I'd ever make. -- Colleen Houck
It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank. -- Arne Jacobsen
I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating. -- Werner Herzog
Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future. -- Susan Hockfield
I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea. -- Peter Garrett
The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July. -- Henry David Thoreau
Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me. -- Jason Reitman
After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene. -- Jacques Barzun
Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking. -- Seann William Scott
Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking. -- Seann William Scott
I am ready for the most exhilarating time of my life, discovery before me, negativity behind me, through the road to ruin, I will find within me, my most unshakeable truth. -- Nikki Rowe
Stripping away my ego and accepting my truth even if it's not who I want to see. Makes me want to be better when it's exposed. It's very vulnerable and exhilarating. -- Aleks Paunovic
Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental. -- Hans Selye
Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey. -- J. C. Watts
Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio's stories, written from the underbelly of the American Dream, present one brilliant portrait after another. -- Sabina Murray
Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive. -- Edna Ferber

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