Quotes About Absorption

I am what is known as an omnivorous reader and it all goes right through me and out of my mouth.

Brains are like sponges... If allowed to remain moist for too long they become moldy.

As children, in our own school of life, we soak up clues about our world just as eagerly as small squirrels. Exposure to children's books provides verbal and visual material to help us along the way. So subtle and varied can the lessons be that it may take years before we use everything we absorbed.

My uncle Randall always had a book in his hand. He read in the car, he read at restaurants, he read when you were talking to him. He read lots of different things, but mostly it was Louis L'Amour's westerns and contemporary thrillers.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

My passion lies with whatever I'm doing at the time... I only see what is front of me.

For my equipment, we're not about running. We're about wheels, action sports, and that type of thing. So we want range of motion and shock absorption. The foot itself has 28 degrees of ankle motion as you press into it or you put weight into it. A typical running or walking foot has kind of around 10 to 12, at max, flex at the toe.

Whenever I work on a project I put all of myself into it.

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

Replacing white flour with whole wheat generally makes baked goods denser, drier, and more crumbly because the germ and bran in whole wheat absorbs more water.

As fiber and other nondigestible carbs pass through your intestine, they bring other nutrients - often fat - along for the ride. This prevents your intestine from breaking down and absorbing some of the fat and cholesterol from the food you eat.

I don't know... I think I'm quite extreme... When I act, I have to immerse myself into the character... otherwise I can't act... In my private life it's the same... I think.

In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.

I'm the kind of person where I always digest everything around me.

At one point, I took a year off just to listen to music and really digest it. I listened to everything you could imagine.

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.

I want to disappear in a role.

Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.

When something really grabs me, I dive into it.

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

I view my job more almost as a field biologist or anthropologist, where I'm collecting practices. I'm collecting techniques.