Quotes About Engrossed

I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.

who would ask for help from nobody but would be quick to offer it. He found himself outside the study door and hesitated, then made up his mind. He tapped and walked in. The men were standing by the window, deep in conversation, the women were sitting by the fireplace, equally engrossed. 'Thought I'd just tell you

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!

He was up to his neck in it. He was breathing the air of its world, adapting to its gravity. The story's essence had permeated every part of him, to the walls of his viscera.

I kind of lost track of time...." "For two hours?" Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved.

I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature.

It is easy to become so engrossed with the mere mechanics of business as to lose the habit of thought.

We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw that neglected cloak of stillness around you — and concentrate, if only for three or four minutes. Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

NEVER BEFORE HAD I FELT TRAPPED, SEDUCED, AND CAUGHT UP in a story," Clara explained

I was mesmerized. 4chan was nothing like anything I'd ever seen.

I was captivated by Stephanie Mills.

dry cleaner's. She'd been wanting to talk with

preoccupied by work." I start to apologize, but she cuts me off.

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel. -Manny and Butch

Duly noted. Don't get between you and your books otherwise you're totally approachable.

I don't walk into a place, start cracking jokes and become the centre of attraction. You will always find me in a corner with one or two people, having personal conversations with a glass in my hand.

I have been - I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times.

I was so engrossed in my sport, I wasn't thinking about the future from God's standpoint. I was thinking about just my sporting future.

In college he had been too much engrossed with other things to listen to the arguments, or to be influenced by the general atmosphere of unbelief

It's easy to see how non-profits become engrossed in catering to donors, which may or may not be the best thing at all times, while if a company is ultra-engaged with its customers, it's universally positive and helpful.

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.