Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Hayes

The more avid readers are much more likely to buy both new and used. Those who buy only a few titles a year buy new.

Carolyn Jones

I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possible. I'm an avid reader.

James Van Allen

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

Jennifer Flavin

I do believe in exercise and eating right. And I'm not an avid exerciser. I exercise twice a week.

Jim Lee

Outside of my work as a comic book creator and co-publisher, I'm an avid gamer.

Esai Morales

I think the legacy left behind by 'Battlestar' speaks for itself. I thought that these avid fans, most of whom were skeptical at first... to turn them into a fan of 'Caprica' as well is a daunting task, a big challenge.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'

Bruce Rauner

I'm a big outdoorsman... I'm a big hunter. Avid fisherman. Hiker. Climber. Scuba diver. Skier. Love the outdoors.

Lindsey McKeon

My husband loves the '90s; he's an avid '90s movie watcher, and it drives me insane. Nothing real came out of the '90s! The bad bathing suits that came up too high on women's hips came out in the '90s!

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Peter Power

The boycott is bad for all those concerned.

Alex Procel

That was a bad scene, but Luis is in good spirits now, and it's not easy to be that way when you're in this kind of situation. He's got a lot of therapy to do. We're not even thinking about an estimated riding time right now. We just want to get him back 100%, and if it takes a while, that's OK.

Dino Ebel

That was a bad one. Like I've said since day one, this team never gives up. We gave up seven runs in an inning, but battled back. It's exciting. We still have a lot of games left.

Dan Whitney

People are starting to see that earnings aren't as bad as they initially thought. It's boosting a market that got pretty beat up.

Harry Smith

People cannot give up on the city as bad as this looks, ... It's devastating and it's catastrophic, but I have also been around the city and there are pockets of the city that can come back quickly, and I want people to come back.

Lewis Mandell

People don't remember the Depression. People who are younger just really believe that nothing bad can happen to them. Either they think Social Security is going to be there for them when they retire, or they may feel that the government will never let them starve.

Joe Durkin

Officers deal with bad guys on a daily basis and make literally hundreds of arrests. Fortunately, it's rare that an encounter turns into a deadly force situation.

Heather Stephens

Oh! I feel really bad about that now that I think about that. She's just so good and she's a senior. She's amazing. I've always looked up to her.

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Jeff Phillips

That's where the title came from. He still had things to say. It just wasn't in God's plan to say it in person.

David Wyss

After September, it was positive for most of the economy except for tourism. Things like car sales came back very quickly. GM and Ford got really scared about sales so they cut prices.

Paul Wolfowitz

The more Iraqis feel that they are in charge of their own country, the more rapidly we'll get away from this idea that we're there as an occupation force. We came as liberators. That's our mission.

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Drew Richards

Coach has been hard on Sky about his defense, but tonight he came to play. Defense, rebounding, scoring when we needed it, Sky got it done.

Matthew Gipson

Coach gave us two days rest to get our legs back. We came in here crisp and ready to go.

Channing Frye

Detroit played world championship basketball. They came out and executed and whooped us.

Zolal Habibi

Despite knowing what would happen to them, women came to the streets in commemoration of International Women's Day.

Adan Canto

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

Twyla Tharp

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

Jack Myers

Broadcasting is still the engine that drives the train. It's still where marketers want their exposure.

Bill Valentine

We are in some ways part of that demographic group that drives oversized cars.

Jim Hueber

I think he is really driven. I think it is really important to him to do what he feels like he has to do to be as good as he can be. He wants to do everything right, I think that is what drives him. He doesn't want to make a mistake.

Page Thompson

It has to have a look that people will be happy to see for a long period of time, while still having an image that drives home what you are trying to sell.

Andre Miller

I just think he's been more aggressive. He's knowing when to score, he's mixing up his shot with drives and getting to foul line. The main thing is, he's not just relying on his jump shot, he's getting to the basket.

Charles Franklin

All the way back to 2002 and 2004, the issue of security and terrorism was supposed to be the strength that drives Republican victories and generally has been the strongest suit of the president. Now they don't have a strong suit to play.

David Mahoney

It's hard to get momentum going when you go on long drives and come away with no points at all. But we need to do a better job of not giving up such long drives.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Anthony Mackie

I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.

Matt Stone

The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.

Pat Morita

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

Evel Knievel

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

Kurt Cobain

Rather be dead than cool.

John Green

Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?

John Green

It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

John Green

I didn't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.

John Green

I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially-fraught free throws.

Dwight Freeney

Porter does a lot of talking, that's his game. He loves it.

Roy Black

He told me this is the first day of the rest of his life. He loves where he is right now.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Christopher McGrath

He'll never be the same as he used to be. He's never going to be able to do the things that he loves again.

Irish Proverb

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

Jane Asher

I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.

Rosa Bonheur

But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

James Galway

They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.

Richard Dawkins

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

Bill Nighy

If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

Alan Shepard

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

Dwyane Wade

To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Barry Watson

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

Doris Lessing

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.