Quotes About Absorption

Northern Ireland must, in future, be absorbed into the Irish republic. Wales and Scotland must advance from devolution to full independent status. The four nations of these islands must commit themselves absolutely to the project of a United Europe.

The second I walked into Jake Paul's world, there was no taking me out of it.

When that music comes on, I just block everything around me out.

I can be so blown away by story lines.

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

I used to be obsessed with 'Boss.'

It's interesting that reading, like listening to podcasts, is a lone pursuit, one where we keep our mouths shut and let someone else do the talking. Where we absorb rather than emit. By occasionally isolating ourselves, we can more successfully, more generously, socialise.

The best part of watching any show is that feeling of being sucked in. If I'm watching 'Breaking Bad,' there is something compelling about Walter White.

I think, when you're a director, you get sucked into your project whether you like it or not, right?

He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood.

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

Doch wie ich mich auch in mich selber neige: Mein Gott ist dunkel und wie ein Gewebe von hundert Wurzeln, welche schweigsam trinken.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.

And he listened to me. That was the thing he did, as if he was trying to fill himself up with all the sound he could hear.

And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

The city unwrapped you like a candy bar and ate you all up.

My act of rebellion would be absorbed like rain on an ocean and leave no trace. I would not cause a ripple.

She listens to him with great intensity because she is paying no attention to him at all.

The important thing to remember is that it is not so much the time as the quality of your consciousness, degree of feeling, or faith. Generally speaking, the more focused and absorbed your attention is, and the longer the time, the more perfect will be the answer to your prayer.

at times expressing his conviction that literature and music were being absorbed by television, which was turning people into voyeurs.

Absorption of Scripture is an essential counter-balance to the background noise of the world.