Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Spiner

I'm an avid biography reader.

John Chamberlin

We are not avid rail fans. We are essentially tourists travelling around the country to see things, using rail as the prime means of transport wherever possible.

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.

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.

Penny Jordan

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.

Richard J. Roberts

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.

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

Terri Bartlett

To say that toys make someone violent, I think, is absurd.

Adam Savage

Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

Daniel Craig

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

Jason Mewes

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

Mark Lawrence

In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

Nicola Formichetti

I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.

Sonny Vaccaro

I've got a lot of toys to play with. I just turned 64, and I'm reinventing myself again.

Michael Bay

I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.

C. S. Lewis

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

Diane von Furstenberg

We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Elizabeth Wilson

It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Cheryl Strayed

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

Barbara Kingsolver

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Brenda Ueland

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.