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.

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.'

Bennie Thompson

At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.

Joel Glazer

We are long-term sports investors and avid Manchester United fans.

Walter Murch

I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way. Truth be told, I couldn't.

Clint Hurdle

Some times the male ego gets in the way of a lot of things.

Dan Barker

Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

Barry Gibb

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

Eckhart Tolle

Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

Dan Brown

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

Bill Cowher

We have a very healthy organization. It starts at the top. There's no ego involved. We try to get things done as a team.

Tariq Ramadan

We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

Sylvester Stallone

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.

Archie Panjabi

I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

Alanna Ubach

I've always wanted to act since I was little.

Bella Thorne

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Brother Lawrence

It is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelet in the pan for the love of God.

Edward Abbey

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

Dixie Lee Ray

Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence..

e. e. cummings

If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you

Aldous Huxley

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.