Quotes About Enthusiasm

AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

I have this problem - I don't have hobbies. Everything that's interesting becomes a vocation.

I'm, for real, the biggest En Vogue fan.

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.

I love doing voiceover work.

Doing voiceover is so much fun because you can play with the lines as much as you want. You can put a whole bunch of energy into it, jump up and down, whatever you got to do.

To be able to be doing voiceover, and to be able to be doing 'Spider-Man,' it doesn't get much better than that.

I'm a huge closet Mariah Carey fan - she's got one of the best voices probably ever.

When I trained with the Japanese team, there we'd be singing Oasis songs at the top of our voices at the top of the jumps. People thought we were daft.

Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.

It's Champions League nights when our fans roar us on even more, lose their voices, and we really notice it. That's what the Champions League means to me.

There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.

I tried everything from basketball to volleyball to soccer, but dancing was the only thing I never complained about.

I played a lot of sports growing up - soccer, softball, basketball, track - and started playing on a club team when I was 12. That's when I fell in love with volleyball.

I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom.

When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.

I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level.

None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.

In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.

My brand is to make things harder for myself. I carry too many things at once, I volunteer to make a 12-layer cake no one asked for, and I do all my mixing with a tiny spatula.

Oh my God, I love Max von Essen.

I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

One lesson is that if you want to predict voter turnout, you should ask whether at least one candidate is attracting high levels of enthusiasm - not whether the stakes are high, or even perceived to be high. That fits the historical pattern.