““I feel as if I’m missing all the excitement.”
”In my experience,” Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, “excitement is always better when it happens to other people.””

— Alastair Reynolds , book Century Rain

Source: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 36 (p. 561)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "“I feel as if I’m missing all the excitement.” ”In my experience,” Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, “ex…" by Alastair Reynolds?

Alastair Reynolds 198

British novelist and astronomer 1966

Related quotes

“I bring excitement on the sets. I’m an exciting actor, overrated, exaggerated. But I’m not an unexciting actor. I excite people. I never lose hope. If I feel that a film is going wrong somewhere, I do even better.”

Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality

From interview with Komal Nahta

“I build things that I think are exciting from a technology standpoint and will help make life easier, simpler and better for people.”

Philippe Kahn (1952) Entrepreneur, camera phone creator

Investor's Business Daily March 2007, regarding technology and the future http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=21&issue=20070306.

“And I think that that’s one of the best things you can give somebody – the chance to show them what it feels like to make other people get excited and happy.”

Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture (2007)

“I feel very lucky to still feel like I’m full of ideas. I think sometimes being in the beginning or the middle of things is almost the best bit. This sounds terrible, because it sounds so ungrateful, but I’m never as excited by the aftermath of things: whether or not they are successful. It’s lovely if they are, obviously, but actually the really exciting bit is when it’s an idea in your head and you’re getting working on it.”

Tracey Thorn (1962) English singer and songwriter

On whether she feels creatively satisfied in “Tracey Thorn: ‘Not everything you do is cool’” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/27/tracey-thorn-another-planet-a-teenager-in-suburbia-interview in The Guardian (2020 Jan 27)

“I think you’re always worried someone’s going to find out that you’re not the real deal and send you home—I don’t think there’s ever going to be a point where I’m feeling super secure and stable, but I’m really happy and excited with the way my career is going.”

Claire Holt (1988) Australian actress and model

Exclusive: The Australian Actress Hollywood Can't Get Enough Of (June 10, 2016)

“I...had strong feelings excited in my mind against Scotland generally (always expressly making great exceptions) by observing that the scoundrelly “feelosofers”, who preached up a doctrine, tending to cause the people of England to be treated like cattle.”

William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist

Political Register (27 October 1832), p. 225
1830s

“I think what’s even more powerful is that I feel inspired and encouraged to be a strong, independent person. It’s not that I’m being forced to take a stand. I’m excited for the future.”

Zoey Deutch (1994) American actress

Interview with Ocean Drive Mag, 2018 https://oceandrive.com/zoey-deutch-hollywoods-hottest-upcoming-star

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”

David Hockney (1937) British artist

“People who read stories are said to have excitable brains.”

Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) British writer

Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time - Vol. II [Bernhard Tauchnitz] ( p. 57 https://books.google.com/books?id=sKYzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA57)
Also in Wilkie Collins: An Illustrated Guide by Andrew Collins & Catherine Peters [Oxford University Press, 1998] (p. 139)

“Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: The Art of Power

““I feel as if I’m missing all the excitement.””In my experience,” Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, “excitement is always better when it happens to other people.””

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Alastair Reynolds 198

Related quotes

Related topics

““I feel as if I’m missing all the excitement.”
”In my experience,” Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, “excitement is always better when it happens to other people.””