Quotes and Sayings About Avid
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My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes
-- Adriana Trigiani -
I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians.
-- Akira Toriyama -
I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.
-- Apolo Ohno -
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.
-- Athol Fugard -
I love scuba diving. I'm an avid diver. And, there's this beautiful world that's more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that we're destroying, for what? It's heartbreaking to me.
-- Blake Lively -
I have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes.
-- Bo Jackson -
First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs.
-- Corey Feldman -
Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.
-- Dennis Quaid -
I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.
-- Diablo Cody -
I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.
-- Doug Davidson -
I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement.
-- Drew Barrymore -
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.
-- Edward Hoagland -
I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.
-- Evelyn Lauder -
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
-- Fay Godwin -
I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
-- Fay Godwin -
When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.
-- Glenn Quinn -
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -
Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.
-- Howard Wilkinson -
a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.
-- Jane Smiley -
Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.
-- Jane Smiley -
I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.
-- Janis Ian -
I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.
-- Jill Tweedie -
The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes.
-- John of Ruysbroeck -
Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.
-- Louise J. Kaplan -
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.
-- M.J. Rose
