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Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form. -- Joris-Karl Huysmans
...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him. -- John Updike
When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready. -- Laozi
I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. -- Peter Eisenman
If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am. -- Elie Wiesel
Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology. -- Barbara Steele
I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great. -- Ernie Pyle
We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it. -- S. E. Hinton
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment. -- Jack Vance
Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in. -- Dan Aykroyd
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on. -- Magnus Magnusson
With the recent addition of a full soundtrack and the players map, millions of Poptropicans around the globe are now fully immersed in a multimedia gaming experience when they embark on our high quality adventures. -- Jeff Kinney
When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo. -- George Saunders
When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth. -- Steve Coogan
I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably voicing that view on a Web site somewhere. Third-world villagers without electricity have cellphones. -- George Dyson
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. -- Alice Koller
There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism. -- Alan Arkin
Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self. -- Ted Hughes
Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life. -- Jessica Lange
I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story. -- Terence Winter
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. -- William Falconer
I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go. But there's just that few days of frustration to get to that point. -- Chad Harbach
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life. -- Rachel Cusk
When I went to Moscow, I felt I was relearning Swan Lake - which was written for the Bolshoi - and being immersed in a tradition and history I had never experienced. It took a while to adjust to living there and learning the language, but now I have lots of friends. I get the best of two completely different worlds. -- David Hallberg
My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.' -- Zooey Deschanel
Nature is thought immersed in matter. . . -- Amos Bronson Alcott
With 3D you're right there immersed in the world. -- Ang Lee
I love being completely immersed in everything I do. -- Kat Von D
I was fully immersed in the now as an athlete. -- Kyle Shewfelt
As a midwife, I am immersed in Oxytocin day and night. -- Robin Lim
I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed. -- Chris Hughes
When you're immersed in something, you can't look away from it. -- Rose Troche
I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ... -- Patti Smith
Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones. -- Walter Lippmann
empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. -- Simon Baron-Cohen
It's important for me to be immersed in all cultures. I'm an actress. -- Rachel
Hope had only revealed herself to him when he was immersed in darkness -- Soroosh Shahrivar
The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self. -- Asaram
We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice. -- Dan Millman
BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book. -- Rob Brezsny
The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time. -- Geoff Mulgan
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering. -- Byron Katie
The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies. -- Italo Calvino
When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits. -- Gary Gygax
I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life. -- Drake
Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it. -- John Updike
There is something that is transcendental about when we are immersed in that which we most love. -- Richard Bach
Today's satori:Such a change of mind wouldNot exist withoutMy lifelong habit of havingMy mind immersed in blossoms. -- Saigy?
He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed. -- Samuel Barber
Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality. -- Anna Torv
'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality. -- Anna Torv
A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it. -- Oliver Lodge
When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it. -- Ang Lee
For those whose heart and whose attention is immersed in the truth, they don't need to have to worry. -- Mooji
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. -- Alfred North Whitehead
When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed. -- Gregory Nicotero
To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light. -- Mother Teresa
Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house. -- Lois Lowry
We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking. This decides what shall take place in our lives. -- Ernest Holmes
I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey. -- Jordana Brewster
Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent. -- Tayari Jones
It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this. -- Francis Atterbury
What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology? -- Richard Louv
Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control. -- Daniel Goleman
Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now. -- Eckhart Tolle
Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand. -- Abraham Maslow
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. -- Jose Bergamin
Like many people who became sick, I found that researching man-made radiation immersed me into a corporate world of lie, confuse and deny. -- Steven Magee
Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity. -- Vladimir Lenin
I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within. -- Bryant McGill
When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot. -- Anthony Hopkins
All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them. -- Sam Altman
We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension. -- Thomas Berry
Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed. -- Joseph Glanvill
As I read the Qur'an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness. -- Jeffrey Lang
One who is established in a comfortable posturewhile concentrating on the inner self alonenaturally becomes immersed in the spontaneousarising of the heart's ocean of bliss. -- Jaideva Singh
It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I immersed myself in the police work and I guess drumming wasn't even a hobby, just something my body naturally wanted to do, tapping stuff. -- Eric Hernandez
I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood. -- Lily Collins
The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. -- Leon Uris
I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it. -- Erin Morgenstern
Your character is slowly built and quickly eroded. You're definitely influenced whatever you are immersed in and whatever you're around and what you're a part of. -- Mark Martin
Deeply immersed in a constant bubble bath of sin, you cannot communicate with Jesus Christ unless you are ready to get out of the bath. John 1:9 -- Felix Wantang
The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Some people become so immersed an a show, they have an image that the actor is not too dissimilar, but fortunately I've never had that experience. -- Robbie Kay
I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all- immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy- it saves you. -- Susan Stroman
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[ Elizabeth II] has immersed herself, in the sense [that] she can speak intelligently about any and all members of the Commonwealth and she has played a role. -- Bob Hawke
Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban. -- Eleanor Smeal
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My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience. -- Raymond Pettibon
The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger. -- Leanne Shapton
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century. -- Eleanor Catton
I don't really pretend to know what's going on, but I've been immersed in the excitement of watching sports, particularly football. I like baseball, probably more than football. -- Kevin Corrigan
Children, temples are places where, at least for a short while, the remembrance of God is kindled in our hearts which otherwise are totally immersed in worldly transactions. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants. -- Constantin Stanislavski
Accessibility is key. MMOs are great for traditional gamers who have a lot of time to become immersed in a world, but the mass market wants things bite-sized. -- Craig Sherman
She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling -- William Faulkner
If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader. -- Beth Richardson Gutcheon
We are all thinking, willing, knowing,conscious centers of Life. We are surroundedby, immersed in, and there is flowing through us a creative something... call it what you will. -- Ernest Holmes
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We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence. -- Duane Elgin
Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms. -- Shams Tabrizi
Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree. -- Erica Jong
I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time. -- Ioan Gruffudd
If you keep your heart immersed always in the ocean of divine love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the waters of divine love. -- Ramakrishna
I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art. -- Takashi Murakami
An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view. -- Samuel Eliot Morison
I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didnt know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music. -- Michael Kiwanuka
Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination. -- William O. Douglas
Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue. -- Horace
Now we are immersed in deep democratic revolutions, for the recovery of our resources, and to transform a resource into a basic human right. And that is spread around the world. -- Evo Morales

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