Top 283 Absorbing Quotes & Sayings

For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art.

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

The heart of assimilation process of absorbing minorities lies in the self-image of a nation. There are, as you will know, big differences for instance between the self-image of the French and the English. And the Germans, in accordance with their rather chequered history, had at least in the past very little capacity for absorbing minorities.

In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying.

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that we can appreciate and comprehend.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

Loss-absorbing capacity among banks is substantially higher as a result of both regulatory requirements and stress testing exercises.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion.

Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.

The State of Israel failed in absorbing the Jews from Ethiopia.

I believe in observing and absorbing life.

Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.

The Christian church has a long history of gradually absorbing scientific perspectives and new discoveries. It seems to me that, in fact, that has been one of the strengths of Christianity - it has ultimately had great flexibility in absorbing new information about the world that we get from science.

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

Managing a club like Oldham has to be an all-absorbing, seven-days-a-week commitment.

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

Inside you're like some kind of mirror, reflecting everything without absorbing it.

I like to be out and about in the woods, in the quiet absorbing our amazing open spaces.

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere?

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

All of a sudden, when you're injured, you realise everything revolves around your core. It's crucial for balance and absorbing impact.

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.

I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

Always keep absorbing art and looking at paintings and reading books and watching movies in other languages, just getting to know the world at hand and the world of the past. It's important to keep absorbing the world and keep engaging with it, and often that means not thinking about movies and thinking about other things.

And yet I am happy. Yes, happy. I swear. I swear that I am happy...What does it matter that I am a bit cheap, a bit foul, and that no one appreciates all the remarkable things about me-my fantasy, my erudition, my literary gift...I am happy that I can gaze at myself, for any man is absorbing-yes, really absorbing! ... I am happy-yes, happy!

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

Absorbing a healthy amount of dirt builds your immune system.

Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.

The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.

This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.

Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you want to be rich - the ego is absorbing energy, its life-breath. You are ignorant and you want to become a wise one - the ego is absorbing energy. You are a wretched nobody and you want to become powerful - the ego is absorbing energy.

If we go to a party, I'll just be chilling in the corner, absorbing everything.

I don't think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You have to enjoy absorbing it, controlling it, and - ultimately - overcoming it.

Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity.

Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.