Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanne Woodward

I also had a wonderful great-aunt who was an avid gardener, who told me all about the flowers, their names and where they came from.

Richard J. Roberts

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find. Formal chemistry at school seemed boring by comparison, and my performance was routine. In contrast, I did spectacularly well in mathematics and sailed through classes and exams with ease.

Scott M. Gimple

I'm thrilled to continue the tradition of the spectacular, cinematic, horrifying, exciting and emotional storytelling of 'The Walking Dead.' I'm a huge fan of the comics, and started with the show on the other side of the set, as an avid viewer.

Astro Teller

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

Kevin Smith

Whenever I'm not shooting, I'm in the editing room with my footage. While the crew is taking 15 minutes to an hour to set up the next shot, I'm behind the Avid, putting the flick together.

Douglas Brinkley

An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year. February, by contrast, was doldrums time.

Adam Swank

The trip was supposed to be mostly downhill skiing, but we're three pretty avid cross-country skiers who weren't ready to give up on the season. I looked on the Internet for a race and this one looked like a challenge. It was masochistic fun.

George Harrison

This is a golf game that could not be played on any other system. As an avid golfer, this game has me muttering to myself as often as the real thing.

Jim Funk

Dad was an avid photographer. He loved to take pictures of nature or places he had been. He had been to Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and throughout the United States. He has thousands of pictures organized by year or by trip.

Claire Cameron

I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids.

Cynthia Voigt

I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.

Michael Platt

It seemed very, very similar to the experience of people who are compulsive gamblers, ... While it's always dangerous to anthropomorphize, it seemed as if these monkeys got a high out of getting a big reward that obliterated any memory of all the losses that they would experience following that big reward.

Edward Looney

We see compulsive gamblers of all sizes and shapes.

Keith Henson

The rewards that compulsive gamblers get are only one step removed from exogenous chemicals, unless you are a big winner.

Michael Gray

I'm always looking for a good deal. I'm meaner than a woman as far as going shopping. I'm a compulsive shopper.

Greg Wittrock

She's obsessed with cleaning. I think she has OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder about dirt.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Steve Southerland

I'm a team player. But I will say that I've never been a 'yes man' in my life.

Keni Thomas

You have to find something in your life that makes a difference.

Missy Peregrym

The only thing I've ever wanted in my life is to be a mom and a wife.

Davey Havok

I attribute a lot of the success to Live 105, of course, because it's something they've nurtured and grown.

Tommy Russell

I think Ward is one of the best-kept secrets in West Tennessee.

Tyler Perry

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.

Truman Capote

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

Rhea Perlman

The secret to success is to try to never figure that out.

William Lyon Phelps

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Will Durant

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

Robin Wasserman

I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to her? I'm not sure she would say yes, because obliviousness tends to be rather pleasant, but once you realized you've been bolivious, there's no turning back. You can't un-know what you know. You know?

Robert Ley

The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal problem which all nations will be forced to consider.

Sasha Grey

I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

William S. Burroughs

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

Wilbur Ross

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

Beth Smith

I want this to succeed for Tim, because if it succeeds for Tim, it succeeds for us, because we'll be spending more time together.

Pat Toomey

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Robert Bach

Americans have been on a multi-year spending spree.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.