Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.

Brent Spiner

I'm an avid biography reader.

Craig Ray

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.

Apolo Ohno

I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

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.

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.

Ian Calderon

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.

Benjamin Percy

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

Elizabeth Moon

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.

Debra Messing

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

Mark Rylance

Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.

Billy Long

There is a real fantasy with the American West. When you really make it big in Hollywood or on Wall Street, you want to fulfill that fantasy.

Billy Thornton

There is a real fantasy with the American West, ... When you really make it big in Hollywood or on Wall Street, you want to fulfill that fantasy.

John Fogerty

We heard rumors over the years that Fantasy was on the market, but nothing materialized,

Christian Williams

I will say that I think it is probably better that people aren't into fantasy sports where I work. It would become a major distraction.

Charles Stross

I don't do flash fiction.

David Morrell

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

David Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Chad Harbach

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Kurt Vonnegut

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

Edith Wharton

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

David Brin

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

Denis Leary

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Dennis Lehane

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Kathryn Lasky

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

Jeff Ulbrich

Last year, we introduced the 3-4, but at the same time, we retained all our 4-3 calls, we practiced them. It was kind of always like, I don't know if it was inevitable, but it kind of seemed like that at times, that we were going to go back.

Erich Leinsdorf

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

Agnes Obel

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

Mike Collins

We just introduced it, and we sold three right away, ... This will become a very big model for us.

John Hurt

Everybody, I think, that was in 'Harry Potter' was certainly introduced to an enormous lot of young people.

John Szabo

What's a joke? ... The referendum is non-binding. You object to an ordinance being introduced to make that binding?

Aaron Adams

So there was this big slug of decaying material that introduced a big slug of nutrients into the system.

Clark Johnson

The speaker is introduced at 7:30 and speaks for about 10 to 15 minutes. Then we have a round of prayer.

Charlie Chaplin

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

Charlie Chaplin

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Charles de Lint

It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.

Charles Dickens

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Charles Dickens

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

Charles Dickens

Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

Charles Dickens

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!

Charles Dickens

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Charles Caleb Colton

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Charles Caleb Colton

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

Alan Watts

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.

Howard Eisen

Wait until you see the science that is going to come back from this mission. It's going to know your socks off.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.

Dmitri Mendeleev

When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.

Dmitri Mendeleev

If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.

Dave Barry

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.