Immersion Experience Quotes

#1. They say best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad

William Shakespeare

#2. I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.

Tayeb Salih

#3. By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it needn't be more pleasant, exciting or illuminating
merely other) and I still fall into books as though into catalepsy.

Brigid Brophy

#4. You can't expect two stars to drop in the same field in one lifetime

P.L. Travers

#5. A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton ...

George Bernard Shaw

#6. As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him.

Bernhard Schlink

#7. I thought it peculiar how one new experience can alter your perspective on places you've known your whole life.

M.J. Prest

#8. Some time ago," he said, "
how long it seems!
I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.

P.G. Wodehouse

#9. Elias Canetti once tried to imagine a world in which 'all weapons [were] abolished and in the next war only biting [was] allowed'. Can we be sure there would be no genocides in such a radically disarmed world?

Niall Ferguson