logo

Quotes About Activity

That's the object of going to a gym, having fun.
~ Joe Gold
The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else's life.
~ Neil MacGregor
I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
~ Stephen Leacock
On occasion, it's rough for me to sleep because I have a lot of things on my mind, so I'll need to get a little more sleep sometimes. I'm up late because I've got a lot of energy and a lot of things on my mind all the time, and I'm up early 'cause I've got things to do, so that's the only thing. That's how I like it; I like to be busy.
~ Urijah Faber
Running had always been my main source of exercise, but I would go to classes at different gyms occasionally, but when those gyms closed, running became my one and only source of exercise.
~ Andi Dorfman
I have been away a great deal in the daytime, occasionally at night.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
~ Gail Porter
I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.
~ Lawrence Wright
Nella nostra famiglia non c'era una chiara linea di demarcazione tra religione e pesca a mosca.
~ Norman Maclean
I live by the law of averages," said Alois. "I prefer to think of the ongoing possibility of profit rather than of the intermittent perils that surround all activity.
~ Norman Mailer
For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was but a progress toward the true end, which was rest, and peace of mind. Action was to be undertaken only when equilibrium was disturbed.
~ Olaf Stapledon
It is the ship at the wharf, not the ship at sea, that rots fastest;—the still pool, not the running brook, that stagnates.
~ Orison Swett Marden
whether it is an engine or a human brain,—exercise or deteriorate is the law of life.
~ Orison Swett Marden
I could read and walk four miles an hour.
~ Orison Swett Marden
None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.
~ Orson Scott Card
None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing. Or perhaps it's just that none of us could be happy living with no other company than ourself.
~ Orson Scott Card
Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.
~ Oscar Wilde
I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
~ Oscar Wilde
Get your hat, he said. - You wish me to come? - Yes, if you have nothing better to do.
~ Conan Doyle
Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He
~ Cormac McCarthy
we assert that in all mammals the center of primal, constructive consciousness and activity lies in the middle front of the abdomen, beneath the navel, in the great nerve center called the solar plexus. How do we know? We feel it, as we feel hunger or love or hate.
~ D.H. Lawrence
beat the band.
~ D.H. Lawrence