Listen Quotes - page 3

I can't listen to that much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland. (Woody Allen)
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. View quote
Anne Sexton
You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. View quote
Mother Teresa
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. View quote
Oscar Wilde
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. View quote
Don Marquis
Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas. View quote
Bill Hicks
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. View quote
William F. Buckley
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. (Bob Dylan)
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you. View quote
Mariah Carey
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. View quote
Confucius
The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. View quote
Chaim Potok
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem. View quote
Benjamin Hoff
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Listen to many, speak to a few. View quote
William Shakespeare
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. (Dan Rather)
If you can get someone to laugh with you, they will be more willing to identify with you, listen to you. It parts the waters. View quote
Robert Orben
The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borgese on a daily basis. View quote
Federico Fellini
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen. View quote
Christopher Morley
Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen - or better still, talk - that their parents were just as bad. View quote
John Ralston Saul