“ You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ”
- Jim Bouton- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Right now we are in the escalation mode, and right now our budgets are absorbing that. We're still moving forward. ”
- John DePasquale- Copy
- 2.3K
“ In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home. ”
- Len Wein- Copy
- 3.7K
“ If pessimism robs us of laughter it has done worse by 'beguiling us of our tears', not that for its sake they are, but that they are not, shed. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
- 2.1K
“ But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound. ”
- Edward Moore- Copy
- 340
“ I wanted something that would be absorbing. I didn't want to fester in front of daytime television and feel bitter like Coriolanus. ”
- Tom Wilkinson- Copy
- 2.1K
“ We point out that people have different styles of absorbing information and you can put your communication in their style, rather than your style. ”
- John McLaughlin- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions. ”
- Graham Nash- Copy
- 1.1K
“ An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. ”
- Donald Sinden- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion. ”
- Martin Amis- Copy
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“ Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. ”
- Billy Graham- Copy
- 3.4K
“ And from Humming-Bird to Eagle, the daily existence of every bird is a remote and bewitching mystery. ”
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson- Copy
- 3K
“ In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.9K
“ It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions. ”
- Diane Ackerman- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
- 4K
“ When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. ”
- Paul Newman- Copy
- 3.8K
“ To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling. ”
- Gail Sheehy- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity. ”
- E.M. Bounds- Copy
- 2.3K
“ A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. ”
- Charles Babbage- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. ”
- Felix Mendelssohn- Copy
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