Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

— Salvador Dali

“Who put you up to this? Was it Greene? This is just the sort of thing he’d put together.”

— Paul Melko

Music was sort of my thing at first.

— Jacob Batalon

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

— Gerald Brenan

“One thing you cannot avoid ever in life, and that is time.”

— Sandeep Sahajpal

“The best gift you can give to someone is spending time with them. The worst thing you can do someone is to avoid them…

— Saravana Kumar Murugan

Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try…

— Alison Moyet

The mark of the man is how he responds to situations. You're not going to avoid tough times. We're all over the barrel some…

— Martin Short

I studiously avoid any academic dissections of the play and any kind of previous experience of playing. For me, it's all in the play.

— Glenda Jackson

Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.

— Shinya Yamanaka

I avoid envy at all costs.

— Claudia Winkleman

I avoid processed food.

— Bernard Hopkins

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost…

— Francis Collins

I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

— Quentin Blake

By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.

— David H. Murdock