Activity Quotes

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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more… — Margaret Atwood
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it.… — Roger Bannister
Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough. — Dave Barry
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing. — Martha Beck
If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging. — Alan Bennett
The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete. — Andrea Bocelli
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J. H. Boetcker
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. — Edward de Bono
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges
I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be… — Jo Brand
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if… — Jacob Bronowski
Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a… — Bill Bryson
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like… — William S. Burroughs
It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from… — Gary Busey
If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous.… — Eric Cantona
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. — Thomas Carlyle
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body. — Deepak Chopra
This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without… — Leonard Cohen

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