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“Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.”

Emotion Horror Pure Standards Definitions Terror Fearful Anticipation Revulsion

Author:Dario Argento

“Already I am smiling in anticipation of the good to come”

Anticipation

Book:The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story

“Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.”

Reality Anticipation

Book:Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884

Source: Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884

“Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation”

Preparation Evolve Anxious Anticipation

Author:Quentin Smith

“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.”

Long Three Lost Serious Comfort Spring England Winter Charm Far Away Anticipation Long Ago Novelty Calendars February New England Puritanism

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.”

Should Rooms Anticipation Palaces Odes

Author:James Fenton

“I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game will be the focus of conversation, and distractions happy and sad will be the order of the day, not to mention millions of hangovers. I wouldn't buy a toaster or a parachute manufactured the day after Super Bowl XXIV. You cannot engender such torrid anticipation for an event so great that it requires Roman numerals as a suffix, then expect there to be no social repercussions at its end.”

“Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.”

Years Has Beens Anticipation

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.”

Giving Dream Moving Justice Focus Sadness Excellence Track Intense Concentration Anticipation Lifelong Joyous

Author:Florence Griffith Joyner

“Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making tools, or designing houses ... it always has a functional or social motivation. If social changes are in the air, I am gripped immediately by the desire to build, and I think that I accelerate or anticipate changes in my life by doing so, at least in draft. In the case of my house, that was anticipation: in other words, first build, then change one's life.”

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”

Feels Moments Literature Challenges Promise Blessing Despair Accomplishment Glorious Anticipation Congratulations

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.”

Firsts Interest Hours Loses Horror Anticipation Bloody

Author:Sean Durkin

“Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.”

Writing Mean Different Flow Details Work Out Anticipation Summary

Author:Piers Anthony

“A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.”

Way Wells I Can Sometimes Knowing Restaurants Anticipation Spontaneous Giddy

Author:Gayle King

“Be happy in anticipation of what's coming.”

Happiness Anticipation

Author:Esther Hicks

“When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.”

Littles Used Special Anticipation Verge

Author:Felicity Kendal

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