Avid famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes
-- Adriana Trigiani -
I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians.
-- Akira Toriyama -
I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.
-- Apolo Ohno -
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.
-- Athol Fugard -
I love scuba diving. I'm an avid diver. And, there's this beautiful world that's more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that we're destroying, for what? It's heartbreaking to me.
-- Blake Lively -
I have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes.
-- Bo Jackson -
First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs.
-- Corey Feldman -
Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.
-- Dennis Quaid -
I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.
-- Diablo Cody -
I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.
-- Doug Davidson -
I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement.
-- Drew Barrymore -
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.
-- Edward Hoagland -
I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.
-- Evelyn Lauder -
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
-- Fay Godwin -
I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
-- Fay Godwin -
When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.
-- Glenn Quinn -
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -
Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.
-- Howard Wilkinson -
a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.
-- Jane Smiley -
Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.
-- Jane Smiley -
I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.
-- Janis Ian -
I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.
-- Jill Tweedie -
The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes.
-- John of Ruysbroeck -
Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.
-- Louise J. Kaplan -
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.
-- M.J. Rose -
The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only teachers who are avid, internally motivated learners can truly teach their students the joy of learning.
-- Martin Haberman -
If you are a middle manager avid to begin a quality initiative in a company ruled by an executive from the old school, look elsewhere for a job.
-- Mary Walton -
Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.
-- Michael Apted -
The procurator studied the new arrival with avid, and slightly fearful eyes. It was the kind of look one gives someone one has heard of and thought a lot about, and whom one is meeting for the first time.
-- Mikhail Bulgakov -
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.
-- Milan Kundera -
I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.
-- Morena Baccarin -
I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.
-- Nat Wolff -
I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.
-- Paula Creamer -
If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.
-- Portia de Rossi -
Twilight''s got some avid - and rabid - fans.
-- Rachelle Lefevre -
Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right.' It never fails to see 'the little picture.
-- Robert Holden -
Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.
-- Scott Kahn -
I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.
-- Shannen Doherty -
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself...
-- Sophia Loren -
Toy Empressario Wonder Afficianado Avid Shoewearer
-- Suzanne Weyn -
I want to do things - scuba diving, sky diving, seeing the world. I'm an avid supporter of living life to its fullest and not always waiting for tomorrow.
-- Teri Polo -
As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.
-- Tipper Gore -
I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz.
-- Toks Olagundoye -
I am an avid drinker with a serious bowling problem.
-- Uncle Kracker -
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which I lived. Gradually I began to see a pattern of nonsense in much scientific writing. Scientific explanations given regarding the origins or functioning of various phenomena simply didn't make sense.
-- Vine Deloria Jr. -
I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
-- Zosia Mamet -
It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos.
-- Ben Thompson -
The one constant in this ever changing music business is the heartfelt and “ear to the ground†Indie Record Stores that avid music fans and artists alike know they can count on to keep music thriving locally. I tour all over the world, and it's these Indie Record Stores that many times make or break a market. People will always want an “album†to hold, not just have downloaded, and Indies fill that need and then some.
-- Dale Watson -
I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.
-- Hermann E. Ott -
I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire to make the story narrated in a book or an aspect of that story come alive in a game.
-- Klaus Teuber -
I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries.
-- Pamela Yates -
Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career.
-- Volker Ullrich -
Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander.
-- Alec Sulkin -
I train twice a day and I make sure I eat right. I'm an avid tea drinker and I enjoy the benefits of drinking MateFit. It gives me energy, speeds up my metabolism and helps me shed excess water weight. I also do everything from MMA sparring to strength and conditioning. I make sure to do a combination of different things with my training.
-- Miesha Tate -
The story is framed around [avid Petraeus] resignation. So many headlines that followed talked about his ruined career. They completely ignore the fact that my career was ruined, other peoples' careers were ruined. They focus on him as the victim.
-- Paula Broadwell -
I've always loved J.R.R. Tolkein and recently, Christine Feehan and J.K.Rowling. There are many as I'm an avid reader, but those three come to the fore.
-- Franny Armstrong -
I was born in Las Vegas and my babysitter was a female Elvis Presley impersonator. My first memory is being in her arms and she was fully dressed up as Elvis. She was an avid thrift-shopper so I started going to thrift shops when I was very young. You could put something together for no money at all.
-- Jenny Lewis -
Yeah, I love A Nightmare on Elm Street. I was just a fan. I was such an avid fan. I remember being on the set talking about a sequence and he started asking me about maybe staging it a little different. I realized - I think he was shocked that I knew his work so well - I remember I started going like, "Why don't we do it like The Last House on the Left, where you had the girl on the ground..."
-- Kevin D. Williamson
