Engross Quotes

#1. Unless you allow yourself to seek your inner depths; the surfacial affairs of life shall always engross you in mundane Routines ... Arise and stand apart ... for true growth ...

Dinesh Kumar

#2. But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.

Jane Austen

#3. Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

Alexander Pope

#4. Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.

Thomas Browne

#5. It was the dream itself enchanted me:
Character isolated by a deed
To engross the present and dominate memory.
Players and painted stage took all my love,
And not those things that they were emblems of.
[from "The Circus Animals' Desertion"]

W.B.Yeats

#6. I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

Thornton Wilder

#7. Individuals capture attention and engross history, but the most revolutionary changes in Roman politics were the work of families or of a few men.

Ronald Syme

#8. I long ago decided that anything that could be finished in my lifetime was necessarily too small an affair to engross my full interest.

Ernest DeWitt Burton

#9. I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

Elizabeth Blackwell

#10. Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#11. Moha (illusory vision) means new things keep arising, and one indeed sees new things; and he remains engrossed in them.

Dada Bhagwan

#12. Leave the atom alone.

E.Y. Harburg

#13. Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.

Doug Liman

#14. Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

Susan Sontag

#15. Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.

Adrian McKinty

#16. 'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.

Laura Mvula

#17. Does this mean we can eat pie today?" Easton asked. Riley let out a snorting laugh. "I know someone who will be." Nice.

Erin McCarthy

#18. Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.

Amit Ray

#19. We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.

Bethany Hamilton

#20. Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

Samuel Butler

#21. Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive.

Dada Bhagwan

#22. Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Robinson Jeffers

#23. There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.

Toby Jones

#24. No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.

Trevanian

#25. Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Alfred Stieglitz