Quotes About Immersion

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

Já když ?tu, tak vlastnÄ› ne?tu, já si naberu do zobá?ku krásnou vÄ›tu a cucám ji jako bonbón, jako bych popíjel skleni?ku likéru tak dlouho, až ta myÅ¡lenka se ve mnÄ› rozplývá tak jako alkohol, tak dlouho se do mne vstÃ…â"¢ebává, až je nejen v mým mozku a srdci, ale hrká mými žilami až do koÃ…â"¢ínk? cév.

Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.

Ceea ce citesc nu e nici pentru distracÅ£ie,nici pentru ca timpul s? treac? mai repede ÅŸi nici,în cele din urm?,pentru a adormi mai curând.Eu beau pentru ca,citind s? nu pot adormi niciodat?,s? m? cutremur.

Não leio para me distrair, nem para fugir ao tédio, nem mesmo para adormecer melhor; eu, que vivo num país onde há quinze gerações se sabe ler e escrever, bebo para, com a leitura, nunca mais dormir, para que a leitura me dê tremuras.

cuando leo, de hecho no leo, sino que tomo una frase bella en el pico y la chupo como un caramelo, la sorbo como una copita de licor, la saboreo hasta que, como el alcohol, se disuelve en mí, la saboreo durante tanto tiempo que acaba no sólo penetrando mi cerebro y mi corazón, sino que circula por mis venas hasta las raíces mismas de los vasos sanguíneos.

Dave Rastovich: "We forget our bodies as we know them and we just . . . swim.

swimming as the act of moving in the embrace of water,

Some people unpack when they first arrive in a city. Me, I look for Chinatown.

The danger of video games was that they shut the world out. The beauty of video games was that they shut the world out.

ConversaÈ›ia cu Francis îmi d?dea senzaÈ›ia unei scufund?ri lente în adâncul oceanului

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.

I'm alone inside the world of the story, my favorite feeling in the world.

Slowly like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.

Io leggevo molto i libri, è vero, ma non leggevo molti libri, perché a me piaceva leggere più volte quelli che amavo […] Leggevo e rileggevo lo stesso libro molte volte, e a volte chiudevo gli occhi e mi riempivo i polmoni del suo odore. Il semplice annusare quel libro, scorrere le dita tra le pagine, per me era la felicità»

He was up to his neck in it. He was breathing the air of its world, adapting to its gravity. The story's essence had permeated every part of him, to the walls of his viscera.

When I opened a book now, I was seized with desperation. I felt as if I was madly in love. It was as if I were in a confession booth and the characters in the book were on the other side telling me their most intimate secrets. When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe.

When I open a book now, I was seized with desperation. I felt as if I was madly in love. It was as if I were in a confession booth and the characters in the book were on the other side telling me their most intimate secrets. When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe.

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

When I was at Yale, I was one of the students chosen to go to China. I lived there for 1-1/2 years and I can speak Mandarin fluently.

The thought processes that go through my head when I'm playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very different. And they're more interesting to me than what you think about when you're doing the dishes, cleaning the yard, watching TV, driving or watching a movie.

You can always pick up stuff when you're watching a high level - it's like with anything - so yeah, I watch a lot of football.

I almost went to Central Saint Martins for fashion design. I deferred for a year when I graduated high school so that I could go model and make some money and immerse myself in the fashion industry for a year.