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Quotes About Avid

I'm an avid biography reader.
~ Brent Spiner
I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'
~ Cathleen Schine
The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.
~ Maureen Johnson
I am an avid reader of Sidney Sheldon thriller novels.
~ Vivek
The most notorious was the King Fahd Islamic Center in Alipasino Polje, which was filled with dynamism and hate, and there was no shortage of avid young Muslims, such as AIO recruits, in attendance (though it was observed that the mosque was paying war widows 200 marks-about $100-per month to wear hijab).
~ John R. Schindler
There is a certain concentrated, avid-for-blood look that appears on the faces of reporters on the trail of a very big story that you'd have to visit the big cat house at the zoo to see duplicated in its primal state. From the look on Brenda's face, if a tiger was standing between her and this story right now, the cat would soon have a tall-journalist-sized hole in him.
~ John Varley
My son Saif is an avid reader. He points me to books worth reading. I also must do the Indian Express crossword every morning, which is not too difficult and yet not too easy either.
~ Sharmila Tagore
I don't know if I'm a clutch hunter, but I'm an avid one.
~ Adam Vinatieri
At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.
~ Bennie Thompson
From my early training days, I am an avid listener of heavy music which is laced with proper diction and effective use of grammar of music.
~ Javed Ali
Barrett is a bigger guy, not fat (not yet) but ursine, crimson of eye and lip; ginger-furred, possessed (he likes to think) of an enchanted sensual slyness, the prince transformed into wolf or lion, all slumbering large-pawed docility, awaiting, with avid yellow eyes, love's first kiss.
~ Michael Cunningham
Everybody goes the wrong way, everything is confused, chaotic, disorderly. But nobody is ever lost or hurt, nothing is stolen, no blows are exchanged. It is a kind of ferment which is created by reason of the fact that for a Greek every event, no matter how stale, is always unique. He is always doing the same thing for the first time: he is curious, avidly curious, and experimental. He experiments for the sake of experimenting, not to establish a better or more efficient way of doing things.
~ Henry Miller
I am an avid surfer, collector, reader, movie buff and am very health conscious, so I work out all the time and I love being with my loved ones when I am not traveling.
~ Bruce Buffer
Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
It shouldn't be a surprise—and it pleases me no end—that Beckett was an avid cyclist. "The bicycle is a great good," he once wrote. "But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
~ Bruce Weber
Rioting begets violence begets rioting. I sometimes think the entire human race is comprised of barely restrained animals, avid for any excuse to tear off their masks of civility. And here I am, always trying desperately to keep mine on.
~ Karen Marie Moning
He's got one thick book. He's in the middle of Infinite Jest. You ever heard of it?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
My mom has a couple great tricks, but my father is consistently a good cook. He's extremely avid about health and fitness and a bit obsessive. He always talks about garden-fresh food.
~ Lizz Wright
Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.
~ Susan Sontag
Joy … It's a journey we all embark upon from the first moment we draw breath. We search so avidly for it. We cannot help it; it's inherent in our nature. Yet no matter how hard we strive, our joy can never truly be complete until we find it in the Lord.
~ Kathleen Morgan
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.'
~ L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.
~ Doug Davidson
I am, after all, a NASCAR fan.
~ Brianna Keilar