Quotes by Avid My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes Adriana Trigiani avid mother book 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 anime avid thinking Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander. Alec Sulkin avid reader mean I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy. Alexander McQueen avid sadness war I am young and avid for glory. Antoine Lavoisier avid glory young I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12. Apolo Ohno swimmer avid age 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 avid two father It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos. Ben Thompson avid mysterious character The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike. Bill Walton avid passion book 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 avid heartbreaking beautiful 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 riders avid kids I'm an avid biography reader. Brent Spiner avid biographies reader I'm an avid juicer and a healthy eater. Brett Dennen avid healthy 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 avid life-and-death night Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse. Christopher Morley avid humanity thinking I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs. Corey Feldman avid rights animal I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool. Cuba Gooding, Jr. avid hockey team 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 avid reading order The one constant in this ever changing music business is the heartfelt and “ear to the ground” Indie Record Stores that avid music fans and artists alike know they can count on to keep music thriving locally. I tour all over the world, and it's these Indie Record Stores that many times make or break a market. People will always want an “album” to hold, not just have downloaded, and Indies fill that need and then some. Dale Watson avid artist heart 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 avid teenager average 12345»