Quotes About Enthusiasm

Our shows are just like that. The screaming is constant, nonstop, and there's not one minute of silence during the show. It's pretty intense.

I like girls who want to get up and dance and don't mind singing in front of my family - you know, silly stuff. Some girls won't eat in front of boys or won't go bowling. They just want to go out and look pretty. I don't really get that. I want someone who is up for having a good time.

I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.

Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

Actually, you can be bad at something, Lily, but if you love doing it, that will be enough.

Do you think I could keep bees one day?" I asked. August said, "Didn't you tell me this past week one of the things you loved was bees and honey? Now, if that's so, you'll be a fine beekeeper. Actually, you can be bad at something, Lily, but if you love doing it, that will be enough." The

Can you dance? Of course, I said, even though I can't really. I think enthusiasm counts for a lot in dancing and in life.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Passion for a pursuit was the best feeling.

Propaganda should not stimulate thought, but rather elicit an immediate and deep emotional reaction such as enthusiasm, fear, or hatred.

I was so enthused with literature -- not stuck on literature, but in love with letters -- that I was easily inclined to bring all the conversations round to works I had read or fictitious characters from my readings about whom I loved to talk

One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

Success requires HIGH energy and HIGH EXCITEMENT

So you're like a ... an amateur sleuth?" "God no. I'm more like the hapless guys in those film-noir flicks we used to watch. I keep getting tangled up in bizarro events." "Oh yes?" His eyes lit with enthusiasm. I was speaking his language now. "Guy Pearce in L.A. Confidential or William Hurt in Body Heat ?" "I was thinking more like Woody Allen in Play It Again, Sam .

I would really like that, Betsy, to cheer and jeer and hoot and root alongside a band of brothers. I would love that. But do you have any idea how much attention you have to pay to a Red Sox game? Even a regular-season Red Sox game?

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it's called 'fan fiction'.

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it's called 'fan fiction'.

Pero, ¿Por qué no acepta que nunca ya volverá a enamorarse? Era cierto; yo no quiero aceptarlo porque me parece que perdería el entusiasmo por todo, que la esperanza vaga de enamorarme me da un poco de confianza en la vida. Ya no tengo otra cosa que esperar.

Y mira que le gustan las sonrisas de Antonia, con sus diez mil vatios de potencia, su capacidad de iluminar por completo la estancia.

I am all or nothing

No amount of parental protectiveness could overcome the fact that she was very ready to be dazzled.

I'm quite convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.