Fading Excitement Quotes

As a dream comes true, it falls flat.

When I was a kid, it was a little bit exciting working with Peter Weir and Robin Williams, but that faded pretty quickly for me.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.

It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

But get it while you're here boy, cause all that hype don't feel the same next year boy.

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

Things kind of have their arc: you get signed, and your first thought is, 'Oh my God, I made it!' But you never really make it.

A good beginning is like a honeymoon; it gets over soon. The challenge is in keeping up the momentum.

People should have all their big adventures while they're still under the age of fourteen. If you don't, you start to lose your passion for big adventures. It just begins to fade away bit by bit and then you forget you ever wanted adventures in the first place.