Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Spiner

I'm an avid biography reader.

John Chamberlin

We are not avid rail fans. We are essentially tourists travelling around the country to see things, using rail as the prime means of transport wherever possible.

Louis Sachar

I'm an avid bridge player. I usually go to the local bridge club three or four times a week. I've always been a game-player, and I think bridge is one of the greatest games ever invented. It's too bad that not many young people play it any more.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.

Apolo Ohno

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

Craig Ray

Mississippi has worked hard to entice avid golf-and-gaming travelers to visit our great state, because we knew if we got them here once, they would come back. The sales increases demonstrate the rising trend of visitors to Mississippi and we hope increasingly more visitors will judge our offerings for themselves.

Penny Jordan

I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of work to get to the local book store to grab my favourites before they all disappeared.

Richard J. Roberts

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find. Formal chemistry at school seemed boring by comparison, and my performance was routine. In contrast, I did spectacularly well in mathematics and sailed through classes and exams with ease.

Carolyn Jones

I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possible. I'm an avid reader.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Arthur Wing Pinero

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

Deepak Chopra

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

A. N. Wilson

I had lost faith in biography.

Conrad Veidt

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

Martin Lewis Perl

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

H. G. Wells

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

George Bernard Shaw

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

Mick Jagger

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Barbara Park

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Kurt Vonnegut

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.