Listening Quotes - page 2

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. (Marilyn Monroe)
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving - from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying. View quote
Errol Morris
I just love listening to the laughter. View quote
Simon Pegg
I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening. View quote
Henning Mankell
There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain. View quote
Georges Pompidou
For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at! View quote
Isabelle Huppert
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening. (Larry King)
It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up. View quote
Alvin Lee
But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too. View quote
Babyface
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. View quote
Bryant H. McGill
That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice. View quote
Christina Milian
It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening. View quote
Fred Ward
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. View quote
Gary Cherone
There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations. View quote
Henry Reed
I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles. View quote
LaToya London
Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks. View quote
Mike Lowry
I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important. (Pamela Stephenson)
I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything. View quote
Thurston Moore
It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories. View quote
Vanessa Kerry
Not everyone is worth listening to. View quote
Alain de Botton
So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means. View quote
Frank Zappa