Absorbing Quotes - Page 5

• There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Fun, Drawing, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk.

  Ron Franscell

  Haunting, Pages, Berserk

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• I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Study, Bless, Rhetoric

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Men, Animal, Political

  "A Treasury of English Aphorisms". Book by Logan Pearsall Smith, Introduction, p.49, 1943.

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• The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Moving, Animal

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.15

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• When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Heart, Thinking

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3803, Delphi Classics

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Blood, Class, Passionate

  'Essays in Criticism' First Series (1865) preface

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• Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in.

  Valerie Solanas

  Opportunity, Our Society, Leisure

  Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

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• 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.

  Margaret Mead

  Divorce, People, Stills

  "Male and Female". Book by Margaret Mead, 1949.

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• There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Two, Guy

  Clint Eastwood, Kathie Coblentz (1999). “Clint Eastwood: Interviews”, p.6, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential absorption and reflection. Call this reflected quality 'luminance' and measure it in millilamberts. This measure is as real and present as height, breadth, depth; and I find the phenomenon equally sumptuous and convincing. . . . Painted light, not color, not form, not perspective, or line, not image, or words, or equations, is painting. I make paintings which do not represent light, they are light.

  Jo Baer

  Real, Reflection, Light

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• In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Dog, Men, Social

  Olaf Stapledon, Robert Crossley (1997). “An Olaf Stapledon Reader”, p.64, Syracuse University Press

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• While every new fantasy author is hailed as unique, new, and different, Brandon Sanderson's ELANTRIS does indeed provide an absorbing adventure in a unique, different, and well-thought-out fantasy world, with a few nifty twists as well.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Adventure, Unique, Twists

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• There's no destination. There's no getting anywhere. There's just the going. The key to life is to make the going really fun. Because people that are like, “If I just get to this, then boom!” And then they get there and there's this dawning of an afterwards. Whereas I'm just always in the going. And it's not a frantic going like, “I gotta keep going or I'm gonna go nuts!” I can not do anything for weeks or months if I need to and just sit and read books or watch movies. I'm just as fine consuming and absorbing new art as I am trying to make it. But it's all in the going.

  Patton Oswalt

  Art, Fun, Book

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2011.

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• When the children had completed an absorbing bit of work, they appeared rested and deeply pleased. It almost seemed as if a road had opened up within their souls that led to all their latent powers, revealing the better part of themselves. They exhibited a great affability to everyone, put themselves out to help others and seemed full of good will.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Helping Others, Soul

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a remarkably wide range of examples and is distinguished by the relevance of its insights and by the precision and clarity of their exposition. It is an absorbing read that deserves to become a modern classic of political thinking.

  Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

  Strong, Thinking, Leader

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• 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.

  Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

  Opportunity, Empires, Witness

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• Adolescents who are absorbing negative messages about who they are and what is expected of them may sink to that level instead of realizing their true potential. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being."

  Daniel J. Siegel

  People, Negative, Levels

  "Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain". Book by Daniel J. Siegel, 2013.

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• There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Purpose, Fiction, Certain

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.308, University of Illinois Press

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• Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted chorus line dancing with the moon, the wind, the clouds framing bursts of stars tender rugged celebration absorbing and releasing life each holy branch holding the power of the Universe. There.

  Wallace Stevens

  Stars, Power, Moon

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• The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common sense, our practical point of view. Actually, these are names for an all-absorbing familiarity with things as they are. . . . Thus it happens that when the times become unhinged, it is the practical people who are caught unaware . . . still clinging to things that no longer exist.

  Eric Hoffer

  Views, Names, People

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• In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing megachurches, Christian yellow-page businesses, or womb-to-tomb Christian cultural ghettoes-they lose the outward thrusting, transforming power that is at the heart of the gospel. Instead of being 'salt' and 'light' -images of a permeating and penetrating action-Christians and Christian institutions become soft and vulnerable to corruption from within.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Heart, Practice

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• And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

  Plato

  Plato, Justice, Lasts

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.166, Booklassic

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• I don't really feel pressure. I'm so distracted by what we're doing; I'm doing this four-acre project, it's just absorbing all my attention. Before you know it we're onto the next project, and so on and so forth.

  Tavares Strachan

  Attention, Acres, Four

  "Tavares Strachan's Desert Explosion". Interview with Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1, 2017.

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

  Timothy Keller

  Pain, Essence, Giving

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