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.

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.

Louis Sachar

I'm an avid bridge player. I usually go to the local bridge club three or four times a week. I've always been a game-player, and I think bridge is one of the greatest games ever invented. It's too bad that not many young people play it any more.

AVID changes how public schools teach. It provides struggling students, kids in the middle with intensive tutoring and shows them how to succeed.

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.

Dustin Milligan

Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!

Kimberly Stewart

I used to be an avid smoker, but I stopped.

These are students who have a lot of potential but don't have people pushing them or showing them how to succeed. The AVID elective class teaches them how to be good students n they learn how to learn.

This is novel. I've never heard of anything like it, just for pets. I just stumbled upon it by accident, but I'm glad I did. I think it's great. I'm a dog lover and an avid music lover.

Adam Christopher

'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it when I was 8, and I'm still an avid viewer.

We knew her to be an avid dater,

Douglas Brinkley

February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. 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.

Suzanne Weyn

Toy Empressario Wonder Afficianado Avid Shoewearer

Susan Sontag

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

Robert Holden

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.

Sophia Loren

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself...

Michael Apted

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.

He was an avid supporter who loved being here. He was always on the sidelines or front row, and had a great impact on our kids.

I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of work to get to the local book store to grab my favourites before they all disappeared.

I wouldn't have done any of it if I hadn't taken that course. When I was younger my dad would show me stuff and try to get me interested, but I just never was. Now it's different. Most of my friends here (at Clemson) are avid hunters. Now I have an interest in it, too.

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.

I have always been an avid cyclist, and when my friend mentioned a bike tour, I thought it was a perfect idea. I presented it to our troop committee and it has snowballed since.

Mississippi has worked hard to entice avid golf-and-gaming travelers to visit our great state, because we knew if we got them here once, they would come back. The sales increases demonstrate the rising trend of visitors to Mississippi and we hope increasingly more visitors will judge our offerings for themselves.

Antoine Lavoisier

I am young and avid for glory.

We really want to perfect the sports content delivery for the avid sports fan.

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.

Over the past 12 years, Avid has played an important role as an official provider for the Sundance Film Festival, and we are pleased to see the company continue that commitment in 2006. As hundreds of independent filmmakers converge on Park City over the next two weeks, they'll have unique opportunities to experience some of the best up-and-coming film projects, network with an exceptionally talented peer group, and connect with industry-leaders like Avid - to learn about the latest tools and technologies that can help them improve their craft.

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.

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.

There is no hiding the fact I'm an avid Millwall fan.