Engrossed Quotes

39 quotes by 37 authors

Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in… — Sathya Sai Baba
A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon… — William Hazlitt
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. — Ian Mcewan
It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good… — Sherry Turkle
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book. — Garrison Keillor
Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is… — W G Sebald
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There… — Adam Smith
... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe 'he must've… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I… — Anne Frank
And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting… — Anneli Rufus
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so… — B. C. Forbes
I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had… — Ashwin Sanghi
It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all… — Gerard Butler
Don't be buried or engrossed in words, be buried in actions. — Raji Yekinni
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play. — Unknown Author
People fall in-love wen they don't get enough of 1... The more they think of them d more they miss them... The more they miss… — Victor Oluwasegun

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