Quotes of: Activate Keyword

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

Brian Eno

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

David Hockney

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

E. O. Wilson

I haven't had to make a decision between 'my brand' and money. Everybody seems to get what I'm going for: the healthy lifestyle, staying active, being young and youthful.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.

Thurston Moore

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

William Bartram

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

Warren Buffett

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

Stephen Hawking

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

Kiana Tom

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Dan Simmons

A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.

Evgeny Morozov

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

David Boies

My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.

Aaron Koblin

Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria.

Ali Babacan

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Aldous Huxley

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

Anthony Hopkins

The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.

Annie Jacobsen

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

Al Sharpton

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

Andrew Sullivan

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

Alice Walker