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.

M. J. Rose

I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

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 Ellis

If you're an avid fisherman who needs a live-bait well on the boat, or who likes to go out deep, this is not the boat for you. Maybe that kind of boat is on the horizon, but not right now. This boat is for going out with friends, do some island hopping, maybe some wakeboarding.

Michael Ovitz

In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also an avid team-sports fan. I think I just blended them all together and came out with a business management philosophy that combines the Eastern ethic with the Western sport concept, basically.

Rodman Philbrick

I am an avid fisherman, and my daily schedule is to write in the morning and then go fishing in the afternoon. In Maine, I fish mostly for stripers, and in the Florida Keys, I go after all kinds of game fish.

Mekhi Phifer

I'm an avid watcher of the Nat Geo channel, where I watch shows about how the planets are formed, and shows about moons, quasars, black holes.

Marcus Samuelsson

I'm an avid runner and play soccer every weekend, but I also have to constantly watch what I eat, and I'm always thinking about how to balance my meals.

Darren Boyd

I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them. Clearly you can't even begin to touch that. A novel is a singular vision, and then a myriad of readers have their own experience of that.

Larry Jones

Kids are constantly playing jokes on parents, and parents are thinking, 'If I could just get them back.' It's fantasy fulfillment for adults. We target it toward adults, but kids will want to watch, too.

David Nelson

Kellogg recognizes the importance of constantly streamlining costs ... That is how it has avoided, and we think will continue to avoid, the margin deterioration that has plagued the industry.

John Ellinger

He wants to go forward, and especially at Spartan Stadium, you were constantly on your heals with those guys running at you.

Greg Davis

He constantly wants people to understand that he is a quarterback.

Doug Summers

He (Jensen) was really focused on marketing. He made sure he focused on his customers. He's been a staple. He constantly focuses on new concepts.

Susumu Tonegawa

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

Sidney Blumenthal

Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.

Tom Cunningham

He's a freak. He has a natural gift to start with, but he's also constantly training. Much of his life revolves around track.

Lynsey Addario

For me personally, I'm constantly trying to really re-negotiate how I'm going to make a living because I can't make a living solely off editorial. And I'm also still trying to tell long feature stories that are harder and harder to get assigned, you know.

Steve Walker

He's about as tough a runner as they come,

Tom Woodruff

We may tweak things a little bit. When we get runners on base, we have to get them around to score. We will do what ever it takes.

Emily Tucker

He is a very strong runner and also very smart in his races.

Robinson Cano

I am a better hitter with runners in scoring position.

Nick Johnson

It's very frustrating. We had some opportunities, and we didn't get it done. I had runners on second and third with one out. You have to find a way to get it in.

Chris Bryant

That's been the story of our year. We just can't score runs when we need to and get runs in when we've got runners in scoring position.

Rondell White

This organization always did the small things to win games. Runner on second base, get him over, sac fly. That's the way they play the game. I think it can be even better this year though.

Anderson Hernandez

The runner was all over me. I had to throw the ball, and I had to throw it fast.

Bill Rodgers

That's fine; we runners are, after all, up for a challenge.

Ron Gardenhire

Have you watched us bunt? Does it look like we have it down now?

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Josh Lewis

I thought we were just going to water 'em and watch 'em grow.

Chris Remley

When he was selected, I wasn't surprised. I'm going to watch it.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Chord Overstreet

I watched 'Full House.' I loved 'Full House.'

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Mickey Hatcher

He'll get pissed off, and you'd better watch out. They don't want to piss him off ---- they want to keep him quiet.

Rob Corddry

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.