Immersed Quotes
161 Immersed quotes by 147 unique authors
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No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it.…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the…
— Richard Hamming
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I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a…
— John Steinbeck
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I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot…
— Amanda Burton
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We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that…
— Steve Coogan
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I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and…
— Ioan Gruffudd
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I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.
— Chris Hughes
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We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That…
— Jessica Hagedorn
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Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we…
— Daniel Botkin
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Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes.
— Frederick Lenz
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I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the importance of the…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
— Vladimir Lenin
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I watch reality TV , but unless you have been part of that crew, unless you've sort of been immersed in that culture in what's…
— Dhani Jones
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The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and…
— Criss Jami
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Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition back…
— Lucy Liu
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My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused…
— Zooey Deschanel
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good…
— Ted Hughes
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Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed…
— Jessica Lange
Who Wrote These Immersed Quotes
147 authors contributed a total of 161 Immersed Quotes, led by these top contributors: