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Quotes About Enthusiasm

You can't rely on Bill Murray to throw the party for you: Get the party started, and maybe Bill Murray will show up.
~ Gavin Edwards
Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it.
~ Gelett Burgess
Lord Kane beat me up," one said with a grin. There was blood on his teeth. "Did you see?" "Best. Night. Ever.
~ Gena Showalter
It is my job-no,-my privilege-to make the fire become an inferno. -Gray
~ Gena Showalter
Oh, sweet! New man meat's made it to town, y'all. Let's gobble.
~ Gena Showalter
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
~ Gene Tierney
I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.
~ Geoff Dyer
I was totally psyched. I heard if you sit in the front row at a Knicks game, the players will, like, actually sweat on you. That would be SO sweet. Ed. Note: NO IT WOULDN'T (eeeew)
~ Geoff Rodkey
I's all, "FIDDY K IN DA HIZZZZ-OUSE! I'M'A HAMMER DOWN ON DAT!" Dem free tix wuz BEAST, yo.
~ Geoff Rodkey
Lheeets gheet rheeedy to rhuuuuum-bal.
~ Geoff Rodkey
Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.
~ George Ade
Richard: You really like it, don't you. Gabrielle: What? Richard: Life. Gabrielle: Oh! Every morning when I wake up and I see there's a whole new other day, I just go absolutely ape!
~ George Axelrod
I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.
~ George Balanchine
I don't want people who want to dance. I want people who have to dance.
~ George Balanchine
A master passion is the love of news.
~ George Crabbe
I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out.
~ George Foster
Grendel waved his tail. Whatever horrors happened in his canine life, Grendel always bounced back with easy enthusiasm whenever some food made an appearance. A treat, a blanket in a nice warm house, an occasional pat on the head, and Grendel would be as happy as he could be. If only people were so easy.
~ Ilona Andrews
Praise the Lord and get the fireballs ready.
~ Ilona Andrews
What would proceed from a continual promotion of living force, which does not let itself climb above a certain grade, other than a rapid death from delight?
~ Immanuel Kant
Urlò anche il pubblico, d'un entusiasmo non sappiamo quanto sincero, evocando alla ribalta l'autore, che non si presentò. Si chiamava Ugo Foscolo, e aveva diciannove anni.
~ Indro Montanelli
Madame, I am a soldier. Soldiers don't think. I'm told to go somewhere and I go. Told to fight, I fight. Told to get myself killed, I die. Thinking would make fighting more difficult and death more terrible." "But what about enthusiasm Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "Madame, forgive me, but that's a term a woman would use. A man does his duty even without enthusiasm. Perhaps that's the way you know he's a man, a real man.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
he would not attend at all to anything which did not interest him)
~ Iris Murdoch
I do like to teach. Sitting in my great chair at school, I used to consider myself as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth...To fire a newborn soul with ardor for learning! At that time I thought the world could afford no greater pleasure.' - Those Who Love, p. 177
~ Irving Stone