A Quote by Gina Barreca

As a kid, you await holidays with a wide-eyed, passionate, almost maniacal enthusiasm. Heavy breathing is involved.

Gina Barreca

Quote Topics

Almost Breathing Enthusiasm Heavy Holidays Involved Kid Maniacal Passionate Wide

Quote Author

Gina Barreca
American - Comedian

[Christmas] holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy canes, but people think heavy thoughts over the holidays because that's when you're thinking about family. Are we close? Or are we not as close as other people?

Augusten Burroughs

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

Khaled Hosseini

I was this wide-eyed kid wanting to see everything and do everything

Courtney Jaye

22 years ago, I walked into the first E3 as a wide-eyed 15-year-old kid who didn't quite know his place in the world. E3 Expo brought my hobby out of my computer and into mainstream culture.

Geoff Keighley

Enthusiasm is when the universe creates through you. You are involved in a creative act. You are bringing something new into this world. When that energy comes in, you feel an intense aliveness that flows into what you do. That is enthusiasm.

Eckhart Tolle

I'm not really a flashy dunker or a show dunker unless somebody's in front of me. That's the only time I really get wide-eyed: when I can dunk on somebody. If it's a wide-open dunk, I've never been the type to dunk it real hard wide-open and scream.

JaVale McGee

You…you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it." "I do like it," he said. His breathing was as heavy as mine. "I love it." And then he took me to the bed.

Richelle Mead

Is enthusiasm important in selling? Yes, genuine, heartfelt enthusiasm is one of the most potent factors of success in almost any undertaking.

Dale Carnegie

I've played a lot of wide-eyed kids.

Tom Holland

I glanced, wide eyed, from Edward's grimace to Jacob's sneer.

Stephenie Meyer

I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

Joseph Wambaugh

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

Pam Brown

They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

Kim Edwards

The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody's always sinking.

Bob Dylan

There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When you are human, you discover that there is great power in hating the earth. And it can almost make you fly. But it never will." I had frowned, not quite understanding him. "So, what's the trick?" "Love the sky.