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Quotes About Avid

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.
~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year.
~ Douglas Brinkley
Never knew a man could be so…hungry for it.
~ James Lear
I'm a Star Wars fanatic.
~ Matthew Vaughn
There's no casual wrestling fan anymore.
~ Jim Cornette
Furthermore, there's marshland on the other side of these hills. No one can even live near it, because the mist produces ill humors. Ill humors? Yes.The entire place is encircled in thick forest, too. She lowered her voice. They say there are wolves there,the size of humans. I like wolves, Dougal said mildly. The larger, the better. She blinked. They're great sport for hunting. And I am an avid hunter. He glanced across her, lingering at certain areas. As you may have guessed.
~ Karen Hawkins
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
~ Aneurin Bevan
I'm a horror movie fan; I'm an avid fan and have been since I was five years old. My father and I watched horror movies, so this is a genre that is very close and very important to me.
~ Lauren Ashley Carter
I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.
~ Jodie Foster
I haven't been watching any TV recently because I've been on the road, but I am an avid 'EastEnders' fan. I've watched it all my life, and so have my family.
~ Eliza Doolittle
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
I'm a crazy cinephile.
~ Bradley Cooper
I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries.
~ Pamela Yates
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
Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.
~ Michael Apted
My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...
~ Adriana Trigiani
Even the most avid technocrat must occasionally escape from virtual space, and what better place to do it than the kitchen, with all its dangerous knives and delicious aromas?
~ Ruth Reichl
She is always starving for new books to gobble
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!
~ Dustin Milligan
I'm a pretty big gamer.
~ Samoa Joe
I'm a hard-core geek.
~ Jennifer Yuh Nelson
I am an absolute geek, without doubt.
~ Luke Goss
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.
~ M. J. Rose
As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.
~ Tipper Gore