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.

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.

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.

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.'

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!

Tim (who farmed in Iowa and managed a grain elevator at the time) and Joan had four kids and they are avid readers and watched the (1980s) TV show. They went up there twice on vacation. It was just an irrigated soybean field when Tim bought it. We always worked with Tim and his family and we wanted to do what it took to make it go.

William Boyd

Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.

Bennie Thompson

At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.

Chuck Todd

I'm an avid University of Miami Hurricanes fan. I hope to come to the day where I can still do some stuff for NBC and somehow integrate it with an RV tour of the South for college football. Luckily, my wife, she's a Florida State alum, so I wouldn't have to talk her into it. I think our kids would think we're weird.

We are long-term sports investors and avid Manchester United fans.

Walter Murch

I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way. Truth be told, I couldn't.

Walter Murch

'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.

Bruce Rauner

I'm a big outdoorsman... I'm a big hunter. Avid fisherman. Hiker. Climber. Scuba diver. Skier. Love the outdoors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gertrude B. Elion

Over the years, my work became both my vocation and avocation. Since I enjoyed it so much, I never felt a great need to go outside for relaxation. Nevertheless, I became an avid photographer and traveler. Possibly my love for travel stems from the early years when my family seldom went away on vacation.

The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.

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 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.

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 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.

Bill Condon

Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.

Alaina Huffman

My normal life is I love to travel, and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader, I guess you could say: I'm a bit of a bookworm.

Danny McBride

And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.

Rachel Sklar

I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.

We (Wachovia) were searching for an organization to work with that had a proven track record of success. CIS and AVID have had tremendous success in helping students rededicate themselves to their studies and be successful in school.