Absorb Quotes
407 quotes by 367 authors
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I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if…
— Thom Yorke
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Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it…
— Thom Yorke
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We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of…
— Thom Yorke
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I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I…
— Andrew Young
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There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer…
— Neill Blomkamp
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To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.
— Evgeny Morozov
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
— Robert Frost
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She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at…
— John Irving
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Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can…
— Nick Hornby
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That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your…
— Virginia Woolf
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You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same…
— Lois Lowry
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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an…
— William Faulkner
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When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of…
— Milorad Pavić
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When someone is seeking,†said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to…
— Hermann Hesse
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I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
— Anais Nin
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Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the…
— Anton Chekhov
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I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days…
— Sara Gruen
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For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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