Quotes About Enthusiasm

The whole world knows that I am a Madridista by heart; White until the death.

15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

Tolkien regretted the degeneration of real curiosity and enthusiasm, and called for research motivated by love of knowledge rather than hunger for a job.

Conocí desde luego que no es la sabiduría la que guía a los poetas, sino ciertos movimientos de la naturaleza y un entusiasmo semejante al de los profetas y adivinos; que todos dicen muy buenas cosas, sin comprender nada de lo que dicen.

My whole life has been heat. I like heat, in a certain way.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

Achamian had felt more than faintly alienated by this talk, as so often happened when confronted by another's excessive enthusiasm.

Yes! Yes! Yes!" Marty kept leaping into the air. I thought I might have to tie a rope around his waist and hold onto it to keep him from floating away!

Lily was mittens and hot chocolate and snow angels that lifted from the ground and danced in the air. She said she loved winter, and I wondered if there was any season she didn't love. I worked hard to accept her enthusiasm as genuine. My mental furnace was built for immolation, not warmth. I didn't understand how she could be so happy. But such was the love I had fallen into that I decided not to question it, and to live within it.

Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

It's much better to be too easily interested.

On the other hand, dogs eat with gusto, play with exuberance, work happily when given the opportunity, surrender themselves to the wonder and the mystery of their world, and love extravagantly.

The hatred of truth is a vice [...] From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.

she mainlines books as though they're heroin.

Jim Jamison, like Ed, loved music and art and history.

You know I'm living vicariously through you.

when the Lakers scored at the buzzer to take the lead, Charlotte leapt to her feet and cheered.

Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced to read some of the passages aloud, his dramatic rendering being greeted by wolflike howls of enthusiasim and hails of live pits.

his mouth was soft and warm and I moved instinctively toward him. I was vaguely conscious of noises, Scottish whoops of enthusiasm and encouragement from the spectators, but really noticed nothing beyond the enfolding warm solidness. Sanctuary.

A lot of people don't know the passion I have for Asian American cinema.

Asian culture is that people are quite excited about the players.

I don't care if you're an Asian fan or an American fan: I'm happy to perform.

If I'm not asleep, it's probably all basketball.

When I was a kid, I used to love playing football so much that I genuinely wouldn't be able to fall asleep at night.