Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cesare Pavese

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Michael Leunig

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.

Nell Newman

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

Ned Riley

We're back to looking at the fundamentals and, at least temporarily, avoiding gossip and rumors.

Rob Manuel

There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm.

Boethius

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

Tim Birkhead

Compared with mammals, birds have relatively large eyes. In simple terms, a bigger eye means better vision, and excellent vision is essential for avoiding collisions in flight, or for capturing fast-moving or camouflaged prey. Birds' eyes, however, are deceptive - they are bigger than they look.

Rachel Remen

Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.

Bill Gates

Software, by being comprehensive, can save costs by avoiding add-on pieces of software. We can save money in terms of speed of development or by being able to run on less expensive hardware.

Chace Crawford

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

Deepika Padukone

I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.

Demi Moore

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

Karan Johar

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

Daniel Craig

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

Antony Beevor

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.

Linda Gray

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

Liev Schreiber

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

Victoria Beckham

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.