Anne-Marie Duff

The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.

English Actress

Howard Jacobson

Making America great again, as if to keep the world out. The world and all its fresh ideas and everything that's new and exhilarating and the wind of change that should blow through the world - block it out, wall ourselves up. That for me goes with a small vocabulary. A narrow, confining vocabulary.

British Novelist

Atifete Jahjaga

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.

Statesman

Sebastian Faulks

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.

Susan Orlean

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.

American Journalist

Alexander McCall Smith

Well, I'd say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I don't go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

Scottish Writer

W. Clement Stone

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.

American Businessman

Fiona Dourif

I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.

American Actress

Maria Semple

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.

American Novelist

Winston Churchill

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

British Statesman

Use 'exhilarating' to describe positive feelings of great happiness or excitement.

Positive Emotion

Often used for extreme or action-packed activities that cause strong emotions.

Intense Activity

Avoid using 'exhilarating' for calm, relaxing or boring situations; it implies high energy.

Not for Calm

 I mean, coming down the side of that cliff was exciting and exhilarating. But seeing those gulls? Like, that was something I never expected to see in my life, you know? And it's just great. It was amazing. - It's like, for me almost, you start out the journey with the weight of the world on your shoulders. - A little bit, yeah. - And you're finishing it.

Keegan-Michael Key...

 it's a great pleasure and fascinating work and exciting to work with graduate students and post-docs and think up cool experiments to understand how this sense of smell works and how the brain might be working, and, well, frankly, it's kind of exhilarating. But at the same time, it's my responsibility

Stuart Firestein: The...

 Abusive relationships don't start out abusive. They start out exciting and exhilarating. There's an intensity of affection and emotion, a rush. It feels really good. You feel so lucky, like you've hit the jackpot. But in unhealthy love, these feelings shift over time

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 we can be certain that it will be an emotional rollercoaster ride. It's scary and exhilarating. It makes us suffer and makes us soar. Maybe we lose ourselves. Maybe we find ourselves. It might be heartbreaking, or it might just be the best thing in life.

Why do we love? A...

 Very heavy hetero guy. But he wrote in this book, "Ideal Marriage" -- he said that he could differentiate between the semen of a young man, which he said had a fresh, exhilarating smell, and the semen of mature men, whose semen smelled, quote,

Mary Roach: 10 things...

 and ache to go back home. But for the fortunate among us, I think the age of movement brings exhilarating new possibilities. Certainly when I'm traveling, especially to the major cities of the world, the typical person I meet today

Where Is Home? PIPE Pico...

 it was a tremendous new freedom. I'd seen my life slip away and become restricted. It was like having an enormous new toy. I could whiz around and feel the wind in my face again. Just being out on the street was exhilarating.

Deep sea diving ... in a...

 no human has ever gotten a single one of these exotic deep subsurface microbes to grow in a petri dish. And it's not for lack of trying. That may sound disappointing, but I actually find it exhilarating,

This deep-sea mystery is...

 surrounded by the sponsors breathing down my neck as they were making sure they got bang for the buck it was all very strange exhausting exhilarating and I felt completely alive and I realized in that

Let’s put the romance...

 as time goes on. My job is one of the most exhilarating jobs you could have. I work with some of the most amazing people. And with that exhilaration, comes a really deep sense of responsibility.

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