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.

Apolo Ohno

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

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.

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.'

Nick Love

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

Lindsey McKeon

My husband loves the '90s; he's an avid '90s movie watcher, and it drives me insane. Nothing real came out of the '90s! The bad bathing suits that came up too high on women's hips came out in the '90s!

Roy McFarland

Wayne is having a good season and his wealth of experience is a really boon for our younger players - both on and off the pitch.

John Challenger

We are definitely going to see downsizing. There just isn't going to be a need for people to the degree that was required in the boon years.

John Challenger

We are definitely going to see downsizing, ... There just isn't going to be a need for people to the degree that was required in the boon years.

John Cassavetes

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.

Stephen F. Lynch

As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on the Mexican workers.

Don Phillips

Joe's decision ... is a great boon for our business. Frankly, it made little sense to me that he left in the first place.

Jozef Straus

Had we not done what we did, and told customers when there was a boon that I didn't want to do it because I didn't want to fire 5,000 people, some little guy would have got the business.

Pat McCrory

This will be a tremendous boon to tourism, not just in Charlotte, but this entire region." ()

Michael Panzner

Sure, lower rates might offer another brief respite in an environment that has seen increasing dollops of profit-warnings and negative economic news recently, but when that is all said and done, a poor operating environment is unlikely to be a boon for corporate profits -- or U.S. shares prices -- in the months ahead, ... The New Laws of the Stock Market Jungle.

Chris Riddell

The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!

Eleanor Catton

In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith.

Paul Gibson

In my opinion, we won't be favourites and the likes of North-East, Ayrshire and Dumbartonshire are all likely to be vying for the trophy,

Josh Silver

I definitely have favourites in terms of albums.

Gary Johnson

The other two saw what was going on and grabbed the hostage, the store owner who was the only person in the store at the time, and held him at gunpoint,

Lucien Smith

I didn't really come from money. So I wanted my thesis show to grab as much attention as possible.

Dan Wheldon

When you think Danica grabbed the headlines, you wait until he starts. She'll be jealous of him.

Tom Freeman

We have to have a melody line. So if one of our sax players needs to stick with one part, maybe the trombone player will grab the melody from another score.

Jim Davis

We're more individualized but we depersonalize meal time. We tend to grab something and run.

Rodney Atkins

Some people grab my hair and pull it out. People write on my jeans when I'm on stage. They write on my boots - their phone number, name or whatever.

Sergey Galitsky

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot.

John Irvine

She grabbed our daughter, and I looked frantically for my 5-year-old son, ... He was looking out to sea. He was mesmerized, hypnotized by the wall of water.

Noelle Kreykes

She didn't grab it and I could tell I could head it over her hands so I stuck my head out.

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Reuben Jr

We want to keep this project local. There are people locally who will invest.

Ricardo Garcia

We want to keep that money here, and we want to use local people.

Keith Cooper

We want to keep it local and we want to keep it Canadian.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

Calvin Peete

If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

Sean Farnel

The ratios of saw mills in Quebec versus Ontario is significantly higher. It's a very resource-rich province.

Anna Sui

When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton denim in the world. Now all that is gone.

George Herbert

The Mill gets by going.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Barbara W. Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Tobias Wolff

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

Nancy Kress

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Sarah MacLean

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

Lord Byron

Romances I never read like those I have seen.

Gordon Sinclair

You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at.

Jane Krakowski

I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight.

Elie Tahari

Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

Ron Bruch

There are a lot of stories out there, some probably written and stored with old photographs in shoeboxes in closets.

Oscar Wilde

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

Jim Sluzewski

We're still evaluating the store base. We've made no other determinations as of yet.

Neil Hamilton

Usually we don't have any vacant stores, ... I think the town is a thriving community. The stores can survive.

Karen Burk

We don't have a listing of stores impacted that we can provide. It's going to vary store by store.

Willie Nelson

We just about threw away the whole store and restocked it,

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.