Gusto Quotes - Page 2

• The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into "America" inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Opportunity, America, Innovation

  "Minority Report". The Nation, October 19, 1992.

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• The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of something approaching a purely aesthetic emotion. But he fears this aesthetic emotion as an insinuating distraction from his chief business in life: the sober consideration of the all-important problem of conduct. Art is a temptation, a seduction, a Lorelei, and the Good Man may safely have traffic with it when it is broken to moral uses--in other words, when its innocence is pumped out of it, and it is purged of gusto.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Men, Broken

  H.L. Mencken (1920). “Prejudices Second Series”

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• It was at a performance art space that's no longer around, Gusto House... All of these great performers from all over the country lived on the Lower East Side, and they would take somebody's living room that opened right onto the street, open the door and charge tickets and put up chairs.

  John Leguizamo

  Country, Art, Doors

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.

  Fletcher Knebel

  New York, New Orleans, Cities

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• We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned ...why shouldn't it be done with that power and gusto [of advertising], with that impact.

  James Rosenquist

  Communication, Impact, Done

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• Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Boredom, Should, Happens

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• Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating to me about marriage as a subject for fiction—a subject that fiction has taken on with gusto since the 19th century—is how unknowable other people’s relationships are. Even the marriages of your parents, your siblings, your closest friends always remain something of a mystery. Only in fiction can you pretend to know people completely.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Sibling, Taken, People

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• It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.

  Patricia Marx

  Fall, Intellectual, Hobbies

  Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Abbey," Sarah said, "life is to be lived. If you're living, you're going to stumble along the way." "All the time?" Abigail lept to her feet and began to pace. "I have such a bad temper and when I was in my teens, I wasn't above using my gift for revenge. None of you did that." Joley slowly raised her hand, sliding down in the chair as she did so. Hannah followed suit, though she didn't look in the least remorseful. Sarah shrugged her shoulders and raised her hand and glared at Elle, who just grinned sheepishly and put up a couple of fingers. Carol tossed her head and waved her arm with gusto.

  Christine Feehan

  Couple, Revenge, Said Life

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• He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

  Emily Bronte

  Children, Wind, Hypocrisy

  Emily Bronte (2015). “Wuthering Heights: Classic English Literature”, p.145, 谷月社

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• Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.

  Ray Bradbury

  Names, Creating, Zest

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• Although Grandma's passion had led me to the power of food, not all of her recipes were healthy. I kept her gusto and the love that she put into her cuisine but ditched the ingredients that bought her a one-way ticket to arthritis, diverticulitis and a host of other inflammatory conditions. I also ditched my own addictions and compulsions around food, especially sugar.

  Kris Carr

  Grandma, Passion, Addiction

  "Love, Eat, Heal" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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