#absorb

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#accept #death #find #go #i

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#hear #important #material #musicians #people

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed. ↗

— Willie Morris

#being #claim #deep #ghosts #his

We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves. ↗

— Jack Gardner

#interest #self-absorbtion #vanity #ego

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ↗

— Aristotle

#degrade #jobs #mind #paid

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#acting #become #becomes #else #good

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#civilized #concept #generation #history #implies

I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#around #become #dad #five #i

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#absorb #best #porous #ready #solution

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#abnormal #absorb #because #craving #eternal