Absorbing Quotes

143 quotes by 129 authors

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
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
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we… — Daniel Tammet
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
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without… — Mark Twain
Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you… — Nick Hornby
I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the… — Pablo Neruda
The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering… — Pope Benedict XVI
The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps. — Louisa May Alcott
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and… — Edna Ferber
The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every… — Thomas Mann
The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It… — Che Guevara
The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them… — Ayn Rand
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay… — Henry James
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up… — John Stuart Mill
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child… — Roald Dahl
And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments,… — Nick Hornby
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest… — Edward Carpenter

Who Wrote These Absorbing Quotes

129 authors contributed a total of 143 Absorbing Quotes, led by these top contributors: