Absorbed Quotes

374 quotes by 325 authors

If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that… — Ira Gershwin
Its more than a simple belief that there is good and that it should fight the evil in the world. It's a personification of Light… — P. C. Cast
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence. — Kim Edwards
Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there… — Richelle Mead
â€¦â€œwhite supremacyâ€ is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not… — Bell Hooks
No matter how difficult something you or a loved one faces, it should not take over your life and be the center of all your… — Richard G. Scott
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit,… — Mary Gaitskill
a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a â€˜functionâ€™, one cog… — Yukio Mishima
Here I had a wonderful man who cared for me and I was screwing around with a self-absorbed, conniving monster who'd betrayed me in the… — Kelley Armstrong
Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are… — Haruki Murakami
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting… — Wallace Stegner
I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs… — Victor Hugo
You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood, — Jeaniene Frost
As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding… — Yukio Mishima
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not… — Northrop Frye
...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment. — Jasper Fforde
But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that… — Herman Melville
New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various corners, but then… — Meg Wolitzer
By morning, she was raw and sore, and knew walking would be an effort. By morning, she could barely remember what it had been like… — Linda Howard
She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial… — Maggie O'Farrell

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