Quotes About Absorption

Das Lesen war weder Arbeit noch Hobby, es folgte keinem bestimmten Interesse. Lesen war ein Zustand, in dem die Zeit verstrich, weil sie nicht anders konnte, während Adas Verstand in Nahrung eingelegt wurde, so dass seine hektische Gier in ein gleichmäßiges Einsaugen und Verwerten überging.

When you read a good book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it" —

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

I am an incorrigible eavesdropper, so I am very much influenced by what I hear.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

From an early age, I tried to take in all the instructions of all the coaches I had.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

It seems to me that an often quiet, but often palpable presiding image here... is the interpretive absorption of the child or adolescent whose sense of personal queerness may or may not (yet?) have resolved... Such a child - if she reads at all - is reading for important news about herself, without knowing what form that news will take; with only the patchiest familiarity with its codes; without, even, more than hungrily hypothesizing to what questions this news may proffer an answer.

Tiana's head seemed to turn of its own accord, drawn to a scene playing out like the moving picture shows on the big screen at the Prytania Theatre.

Sangre que ve la luz se la bebe la tierra.

atendía la vida como quien come distraído.

Governments assuming gigantic proportions end by absorbing half of all the revenues. The people are astonished that while marvelous labor-saving inventions, destined to infinitely multiply productions, are ever increasing in number, they are obliged to toil on as painfully as ever, and remain as poor as before.

Sleep swallowed her like a pond gulping a pebble.

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

While we read the Word, its message saturates our hearts, whether we are conscious of what is happening or not.

The practice of sympathy may mean the cultivation of similar tastes, though that will almost naturally follow from the fellowship. But to cultivate similar tastes does not imply either absorption of one of the partners, or the identity of both. Rather, part of the charm of the intercourse lies in the difference, which exists in the midst of agreement.

This is where I want to be now, alone with myself. Because I know that something has happened to me tonight, something that I'm not going to understand at first, something I need to just absorb and think about and get used to. This is going to be hard for me. I can't control this. I can't stop what it will do to me. But I want it. I want to be inside it, to feel it, forever.

He had this great curiosity. If there was a car wreck and Walter saw it, it would be like the first car wreck he ever saw in his life.

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.

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.

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