Avid Quotes - Page 4

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

I'm also not an avid watcher of the show ['Walking Dead'] for no good reason. I think it's obviously a great show. I think it's a good comparison [to "Zoo"], because it is this apocalyptic world we're living in Season 2 of "Zoo."

I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.

I've always loved J.R.R. Tolkein and recently, Christine Feehan and J.K.Rowling. There are many as I'm an avid reader, but those three come to the fore.

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.

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.

Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

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.

I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.

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.

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

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.

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.

I'm an avid juicer and a healthy eater.

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

Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander.

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes