Quotes About Osmosis

#1. Everything in the universe is connected
Everything is osmosis
You cannot separate any part from the whole
Interdependence rules the cosmic order.

Taisen Deshimaru

#2. He continued, slowly, by a process of osmosis and white knowledge (which is like white noise, only more useful), to comprehend the city, a process that accelerated when he realized that the actual City of London itself was no bigger than a square mile.

Aldous Huxley

#3. Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don't have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis.

Christine Elise

#4. Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there.

Malik Yoba

#5. I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales.

Isabel Allende

#6. I've skimmed through it a dozen times, the book glued to my side the past few days, like maybe the information will sink in through osmosis.

J.M. Darhower

#7. Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

Hilary Mantel

#8. I learned much from Crispin, though a lot of the things he went on about passed over my head. But he was one of those teachers who, by a kind of osmosis, helped you discover the quantity of areas in your life in which you are still so ignorant as not to have even considered forming a wrong opinion.

Miguel Syjuco

#9. I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.

Joel Silver

#10. Ah, marriage. The kind of union we have affects our children infinitely more than the schools we put them in, the activities we sign them up for, or the church we take them to. Our kids are learning relational habits by osmosis, and statistics say they'll likely imitate what they witness at home.

Jen Hatmaker

#11. I am, to my core, Canadian, so, by osmosis, everything I write reflects that upbringing.

Elinor Florence

#12. I have a new theory about algebra," I said. "In going to learn it by osmosis.

Robin McKinley

#13. Did you see their rings? Will you give me something nice one day?" Killian sounded giddy, riding on the emotional overflow he had picked up by osmosis apparently.
"I fucking gave you a gun didn't I?

Quil Carter

#14. By fall, they can read. It happened by osmosis, the way it ought to: after they have spent several months on Daddy's lap, following his spoken words with their eyes and pretending to read, their comes a day when they no longer have to pretend.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#15. I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff.

Theo James

#16. The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

Maya Angelou

#17. Between Sylvia and me there existed as between my own mother and me - a sort of psychic osmosis which, at times, was very wonderful and comforting; at other times an unwelcome invasion of privacy (words from Aurelia Plath from the Introduction)

Sylvia Plath

#18. Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.

Kate Walsh

#19. Success will not happen through (os.mo.sis), osmosis.

Jon Jones

#20. I was trying to seduce him just by being physically near him. Like, seduction by osmosis. It works in movies constantly.

Katie Heaney

#21. Success cannot come like osmosis ; hardwork , commitment and faithfulness are the common ingredients .

Osunsakin Adewale

#22. Now I realized that life supplies us with everything we need for the journey. Everything I had acquired either actively or passively, everything I had learned either voluntarily or by osmosis, was coming back to me as the real riches of my life, even though I had lost everything.

Ingrid Betancourt

#23. I learned from admiration and osmosis.

Joni Mitchell

#24. The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Richard P. Feynman

#25. Dove tried to take her mind away from his man meat, but it was like her brain was paralyzed by dick osmosis. Johnson's feet were big, which meant ...
He has a monster cock.

Debra Anastasia

#26. My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.

Raymond Loewy

#27. Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Rhys Ifans

#28. And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

Stephen King

#29. Living in L.A., you couldn't help picking up tidbits of the surf culture, almost through osmosis ... it was in the air, like vitamin D and the odd Brad Pitt sighting.

Ophelia London

#30. My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

Alan Garner

#31. Do the thing itself. Don't pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don't ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.

Holland Taylor

#32. Doesn't matter. You'll pick up what you need to know
cultural osmosis.

Neil Gaiman

#33. God, how I hate the fact that I know this stuff. It only proves that it is possible to learn by osmosis.

Natalie Blitt

#34. America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.

Virginia Postrel

#35. 'Dandelion Wine' became one of the few books that I returned to time and again, and while not anywhere near the story crafter as Mr. Bradbury, I hope I managed to absorb by osmosis some of his techniques.

Kim Harrison

#36. Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.

Angela Cartwright

#37. I wonder briefly if I could somehow broker a deal with God whereby if I put both my arms around Chris, his suffering would be transferred to me via skin-to-skin osmosis at a rate inversely proportionate to how much I love him.

Laura Buzo

#38. He was pressing himself against the wall as though trying to get through it by osmosis.

Diana Gabaldon

#39. I think by my father owning a store, I was definitely aware of the commercial aspect of selling clothes. His shop was a place I enjoyed spending time in as a boy, so I learned things almost by osmosis at times, by literally just being around all the action and not really despite myself.

Dries Van Noten

#40. I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

Dwight Yoakam

#41. The truth is that grammar is always interesting, always useful. Mastering the logic of grammar contributes, in a mysterious way that again evokes some process of osmosis, to the logic of thought.

Francine Prose

#42. I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.

James Burrows

#43. You have that look on your face," she whispered mockingly, "that Beast-just-gave-Beauty-a-whole-frickin'-library look and now she's going to spin around like she can read them all at once through osmosis.

Victoria Kahler

#44. I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the building houses is an earthquake. This thinking must surely come into the poems I write, but more by osmosis than will.

Jane Hirshfield

#45. Photographic data ... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.

Salvador Dali