#activity

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#created #methodology #nonverbal #organized #should

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#activity #currently #does #energy #fossil

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy. ↗

— Chris Rock

#comedy #group #verbal

I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#dance #i #like #weekend

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#black #ground #stimulate #takes #vote

Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#around #centers #countries #country #first

History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does. ↗

— Ed Royce

#abroad #activity #aggressive #any #democracies

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#directed #ethics #his #inner #man

And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today. ↗

— John Sexton

#california #conduct #few #had #him