I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

- Donald Davis

I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

- Jeremy Northam

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell.

- Jason Robert Brown

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

I do see, in some younger writers, elements and things that I have used - and I am very touched and flattered because I am part of a tapestry that is being absorbed by authors.

- Isobelle Carmody

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

- Helen Wills Moody

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

- Helen Oyeyemi

What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films.

- Glen Duncan

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

- Elisabeth Hasselbeck

A lot of technological capital has to be absorbed person-to-person, and that happens more quickly if countries are economically integrated.

- Edward C. Prescott

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

- Daniel Tammet

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

- Chetan Bhagat

It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.

- Barry Pepper

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

- Bob Edwards

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

- Barbara Steele

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

- Buddy Rich

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.

- Ansel Elgort

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

- Alan Perlis

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

- Aristotle