Quotes About Engagement

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

There are a lot of actors out there who are able to engage with something in themselves which isn't necessarily their brain. But personally I find it very intellectually satisfying: doing your research and then burrowing as deeply into character as you can. I'm a naturally inquisitive person, too, and acting does feed into that.

I wouldn't say that I'm a naturally political beast.

Sheldon S. Wolin

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

there is a secret to silence-active listening.

If your heart's not in it, why are you in it?

If he was not careful, this woman would fascinate him.

He had expected to be challenged by this woman, not captivated. She surprised him, and surprise made him vaguely uneasy.

It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose.

I'm going to crash if you keep that up. You're sort of distracting.' He laughed again at her matter-of-fact observation. 'I'm sort of distracting? I obviously need to try harder.

Steele could be so completely still, it felt like he could disappear. His energy would get so low that you could forget he was in your space. He never missed anything when he was like that. He took in the smallest detail.

Tell me about yourself. Everything you can think of. Look only at me. Look into my eyes. See me. Only me.

You have to commit to us. Just like you're part of Torpedo Ink, I have to be part of you. You have to be all in.

Ilya shrugged. "I'm going to marry Joley, so you'd better get used to the idea of having me around." "She know that?" Jonas asked, somewhat mollified. "Not yet. She has a few issues with me.

Mikhail, are you asking me to marry you?" "I am not really certain I know how it is done. Should I be on my knee?" He was grinning openly at her. "You're proposing to me with a carload of assassins approaching?" "Potential assassins." He gave her a small, heart-wrenching smile. "Say yes. You know you cannot possibly resist me. Say yes.

You have to commit to us. Just like you're part of Torpedo Ink, I have to be part of you. You have to be all in.

The aesthetic moment constitutes this deep rapport between subject and object

But that was something, wasn't it? It was good to be needed. It was better than being alone. It even felt good to be used. Being used brought you deep inside the machinery of the world.

I can't bear those people who only talk about arthritis and ring roads and television and mending gutters, although one does recognize the need for them, if only because they occasionally provide babies who grow up to be more interesting.

It was a man taking a machine and a machine taking a man into secret places, into the subliminal.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.