Absorbed Quotes

374 quotes by 325 authors

Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. — Mehmet Oz
As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England. — Gwyneth Paltrow
I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings. — River Phoenix
And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely… — Anna Quindlen
It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world. — Daniel Tammet
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. — James Taylor
Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by… — Marlo Thomas
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy,… — Brenda Ueland
I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing. — Mia Wasikowska
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. — Kanye West
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. — Walt Whitman
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
We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to… — Stephen Batchelor
Big Brother isnâ€™t watching. Heâ€™s singing and dancing. Heâ€™s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brotherâ€™s busy holding your attention every moment youâ€™re awake.… — Chuck Palahniuk
Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and… — Tom Robbins
I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a… — Cornelia Funke
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
If it wasnâ€™t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were… — Katherine Mansfield
I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's… — A.M. Homes

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