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Activity Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
- Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.
- Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction.…
- The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual…
- Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind…
- Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.
- I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the…
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- If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen… — 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;… — Jo Brand
- Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last… — Jacob Bronowski
- Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you… — Bill Bryson