Quotes About Enthusiasm

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

Before she knew what she was about, she was jumping about like a crazy woman, yelling, "Yes! Yes! I win!" "You don't win," Anthony snapped. "Oh, it feels like I've won," she reveled.

Though it was dark, I could see how his eyes came alive with enthusiasm and the way he used his hands to illustrate with surprising grace. There were hidden depths beneath that impassive exterior. A sweet kernel shielded by a tough shell; dancing fire concealed in stone.

The gung-ho spirit overrode caution, as ignorance triumphed over reason.

Perhaps it would be better to say that, rather than losing their passion, they had frozen it by over-idealizing it.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

I am shaking it, popping it, laying it down and working it out

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Christendom and the theological world were always ill-advised in thinking it their duty for some reason or other, either of enthusiasm or of theological conception, to pitch their tents in opposition to reason.

It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.