Quotes About Absorption

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

Living for football has saturated me.

If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.

I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

When I'm reading a book, I don't notice the passing of time.

Two quiet dishwashing secrets are baking soda and salt. They can be used as abrasives, and they also absorb odor and penetrate into cutting boards.

Like the creation, man's games are an expression of freedom . . . for playing relates to the joy of the creator with his creation and the pleasure of the player with his game. Like creation, games combine sincerity and mirth, suspense and relaxation. The player is wholly absorbed in his game and takes it seriously, yet at the same time he transcends himself and his game, for it is after all only a game.22

The earth drinks all that's left of you and asks for more.

He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

I kept talking until the coup and its various acts and scenes dissolved into a liquid mass that infiltrated my veins—until the air I breathed was the plan itself. Until I became the plan

Yes, I love that word "absorption" because I think that's my definition of happiness. I think all of us know we are happiest when we forget ourselves, when we forget the time, when we lose ourselves in a beautiful piece of music or a movie or a deep conversation with a friend or an intimate encounter with someone we love. That's our definition of happiness.

Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.

There are tons of vitamins and minerals you'll get in plant-based foods that are not soluble if you don't eat fat.

I like the idea of the audience absorbing the language and getting to understand it as they journey through the film. It starts off being more obscure, but you get used to it. A 'Clockwork Orange' thing. I read 'Clockwork Orange' without any vocabulary, and I got to understand the words as I went through it. I like that process. It immerses you.

I'm probably not one of the more vocal people around, but I do watch, I do listen and I try to learn from the people I watch.

I have this problem - I don't have hobbies. Everything that's interesting becomes a vocation.

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

I'm a voracious reader. I want information, all kinds - Internet, books, magazines.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

I read several books at once.