Excessive Enthusiasm Quotes

Irrational exuberance

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.

I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.

I love sports, OK? But I think we really need to take it on ourselves to not be so crazy about sports, not to risk someone's future just because we think they might be the next star.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

I've always been intemperate in my affection for food.

I'm not much of a fan-girl.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.

I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

I have to be careful with surfing. It's still an addiction to me. It's all I want to do, and that's the big dilemma I have with it.

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

I'm one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I'm out of control with it. I'm just gonna use every feature to make me outrageous - the best.

I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid football fan, and it's been so horrible.

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on.

We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more.

...it was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm.

I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of everything to keep up with it all. I get bored with Silicon Valley technology a lot. I've always had much more of a draw to the people who are doing things for love than the people who are doing things for money.

I've heard when girls meet 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, they throw up on them and faint. I wouldn't want to get thrown up on.