Quotes About Absorption

You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

In a game, I'm locked in. I maybe notice three rows in the stands the arena over, and that's it.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

When vitamin B12 from food reaches the small bowel, it is bound to IF, a glycoprotein secreted by parietal cells of the stomach. The vitamin B12–IF (cobalamin-IF) complex is then transported through the terminal ileum into the circulation. Vitamin B12 absorption cannot occur in the absence of IF.

I sat down on the bench and started playing, instantly lost in the perfection of the moment; I was elsewhere.

i am part of everything that i have read

So many read good books and get nothing, because they read them over cursorily, slightly, superficially.

I'm pretty much self-taught - I never went to any courses. If I want to learn about, say, the frontal lobe, I'll buy 40 books and absorb them in a couple of weeks. I'm a nerd like that.

My attention is constantly being caught! I'm constantly learning, constantly becoming fascinated by new things - I'm lucky that I read incredibly quickly and absorb a lot of information easily, because otherwise I don't think I'd ever get my head out of a book!

There's no point in working if I'm not involved and interested.

The trouble with influential books is that if you have absorbed the influence without ever reading the original, then it can sometimes be hard to appreciate the magnitude of its achievement.

Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship. Maybe Al Green is directly responsible for more than I ever realized.

An Anglisc oath is like water. It pours into every part of you, every crevice. You can't hold any piece apart from it.

I was like a trashcan. I took everything.

She pressed her mouth to his throat, his shoulder, would have absorbed him into her skin if she'd known a way.

You almost forget there's any place else in the world.

You're well and truly hooked, Gallagher, he thought, and decided he rather enjoyed the sensation.

We were kept busy learn­ing. We had a mil­lion facts to re­mem­ber.

So intense was Kennedy's concentration that she hadn't

Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.

Absorbing, mysterious, of infinite richness, this life.

She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.

she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.