Quotes About Enthusiasm

Most of the people I hang out with who sing love it, and they just want to do it until they die. I still look forward to the performances. And believe it or not, they're all kind of different. Even though you sing the same songs, and maybe you go to the same venues, it just feels completely different every time you go on stage.

I'm still like a little kid about it, where I'm just so happy and excited that people want to come to our shows and watch us play. I still go outside the venues and take a picture of our name on the marquees. I still feel like I'm trying hard to be in a good band, I really do. And I think that's a healthy approach.

There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.

I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.

I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I found Slott's version of 'She-Hulk' first, and then I went back and looked up some of the older stuff because I liked it so much. And it was so good. It was perfect. It was my perfect comic book at the time that I found it.

I enjoy my work; sorry if that bothers you.

This is going to be awesome," Jackie gurgled. Deborah did not appear to agree.

Show that good old team spirit. Wave the flag, give 'em hell, and all that.

You may have increased the enthusiasm among our country's elite for finding other means of replacing what you've taken away. -Kichisaburo Nomura, Japanese Ambassador to the United States

For the Indians, cricket is not a game, it's a religion.

They [the dogs] danced in excited harmany... From The Cutting Edge.

Even the air seemed on fire, subtly aflame with energy as it does when you are young, when the synapses are firing wildly and death is far away.

I was young, and, despite dread, full of animal spirits; it was impossible for me to take a dark view too long.

You know why I love HGTV? It's not just that I get a peek into other people's lives. It's that everyone's always thrilled with the end result, whether they're redecorating an unfortunate room, selling a house, or cleaning up another contractor's mess. I love for a happy ending, and HGTV is perpetually upbeat and optimistic. The shows are all about problem solving, not drama creating.

If we could just pour that same enthusiasm and competitive élan we use for accumulating things, renovating, or attaining better sleep into our savings accounts and FICO scores, we might start to undo that toxic connection.

There's nothing as unstoppable as a freight train full of fuck-yeah.

The girl, Gary's girl....would keep bowls of Hershey's Kisses on the coffee table, and she'd decorate the house for all the big holidays and most of the small ones. Probably she'd be class mother, and PTA president, and she'd deliver meals to the elderly once a month. In bed, she'd be exuberant, and would take it as an endorsement when Gary sweated all over her.

I never knew you played the banjo! cried Harris and I, in one breath. Not exactly, replied George: but it's very easy, they tell me; and I've got the instruction book! From Three Men in a Boat

It was a ramshackle affair, dragged along by a knock-kneed, broken-winded somnambulist, which his owner, in a moment of enthusiasm, during conversation, referred to as a horse.

I am completely obsessed. And the audience wants that; they pay for that. I don't want to see someone who's kind of into it. ... That's what I care about. That's all I care about. I don't care what you do—I just want to see people and talk to people and be around people who are into it.

Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.

When I walk in your door I want to be thrilled

It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.

What's the matter? said the old man. Can't you make up your mind what kind you want? The kid laughed. I want them all. He threw his hands out. I'm learning everything! He opened one of the books. Look...geometry...triangles...