A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred A. Allen

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?
Corbin Bernsen

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James A. Michener

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
William Wycherley

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.
Tom Hayden

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
Lucian Freud

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
Andrew Sullivan

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George Dennison Prentice

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
Anthony Burgess

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.
Ali A. Saleh

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.
Hector Elizondo

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.
David Coverdale

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.
Stanley Schmidt

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.
Lion Feuchtwanger

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'
Rosario Dawson

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.
Terry Gilliam

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.
Virgil Thomson

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?
Ernie Hudson

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.
Dennis Kucinich