#absorb

I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#amount #apartment #bargain #bought #completely

You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#been #career #championships #greatest #greatest thing

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. ↗

— David Mamet

#anything #artist #become #create #devour

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#absorb #bedrock #between #difference #discipline

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. ↗

— William Osler

#books #buy #contents #easier #much

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#change #languages #manage #programming #progress

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#different #different ways #how #i #much

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. ↗

— James Taylor

#i #music #self-absorbed #sentimental #think

Who or what inspires you?" "I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#humour #inpiration #self-absorbed #inspirational

This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#absorb #act #disaster #had #handle