Absorb Quotes

407 quotes by 367 authors

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more. — David Hockney
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. — Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.… — Victor Hugo
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage. — Alan King
The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and… — Jeffrey Kluger
What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which… — Lucy Larcom
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if… — D. H. Lawrence
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. — Walter Lippmann
Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of… — Yo-Yo Ma
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the… — Yo-Yo Ma
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour… — David Mamet
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. — Donella Meadows
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town,… — Felix Mendelssohn
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that… — Toni Morrison
As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a… — Walter Dean Myers
With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It… — Apolo Ohno
I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that… — Susan Orlean
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. — William Osler
Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. — Mehmet Oz
The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible. — Sarah Palin

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