The sea was the first thing he had found that was large…

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

— Mark Twain

Console yourself, you're better alone destroy yourself, see who gives a fuck. Absorb yourself, you're better alone destroy yourself.

— Lamb Of God

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he…

— Richard Jefferies

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

— Julia Cameron

We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space…

— James Blake

You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.

— Martin Freeman

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

— Tom Waits

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

— Giacomo Casanova

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

— Leonardo da Vinci

I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out…

— Kat Edmonson

“…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate…

— Mary Roach

If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways…

— Emily Blunt

“Always read…always learn…always absorb.”

— Pia Leba Talmud

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather…

— Arto Lindsay

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is…

— John Piper