Absorb Quotes

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle

Mind, Jobs, Paid

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
Dave Barry

Person, Another, Fact

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

Love, Positive, Yourself

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
Salma Hayek

Life, Education, Hope

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

Read, Books, Simpler

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
Martin Scorsese

Matter, Subject, Tolerate

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
David Hockney

Human, Fashion, Problems

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.
Julia Roberts

Best, Living, Cannot

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith

Greatest, Through, After

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Jean Baudrillard

Love, Future, Someone

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

Good, Someone, Working

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.
Sarah Palin

Smart, Possible, Republican

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

Society, Important, Someone

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.
Mike Royko

Live, Simple, Bad

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
Roger Ebert

Movies, Attention

Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.
Fred Durst

Music, Time, Done

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
Mike Rounds

Work, Future, Simple

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.
Thom Yorke

Music, Great, Political

It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.
Mia Wasikowska

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

Home, Deep, Claim

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Leadership, Pain, Sacrifice

I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.
Charlie Kaufman

Stupid, Angry, Bad

Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.
Andrew Weil

Human, Ignore, Perfect

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
Thom Yorke

Power, Around, Makes

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
Buddy Rich

Learning, Long, Down

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
Felix Adler

Country, Attention, Almost

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.
Carre Otis

Women, Woman, Young

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
Herman Hesse

Wonderful, Desire, Read

If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone.
Emily Blunt

Character, Someone, Different

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