Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Pater

He seemed to those about him as one listening to a voice, silent for other men

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Reid Scott

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

Richard Gere

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

Rivers Cuomo

I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever.

Richard L. Evans

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

Tori Amos

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

Tori Amos

When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Derek Stafford

He comes out every day. He comes out just like we do. He's just trying to get better.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Keith Cooper

I was ducking this way, then ducking that way, trying to get away. I had no idea what was going on.

Kathleen Hanna

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.

Mark Turgeon

I was just asking our guys to get it close and put the pressure on them.

Chris Osgood

I was just asking him how he was, and I said I was ready and he didn't have to push it if he was injured, and that was it, really.

Diego Della Valle

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

John Lovelace

I talked with the people I buy them from and we're basically not going to be getting any for a while, ... I told the people I won't be asking for them for a while. I'd hate to put one out down here when people so desperately need them down there.

Ermias Belay

Is what is happening in Idaho an anomaly, a statistical fluke? That is possible. But once it exceeds 1.5 or 2 per million, you start asking questions. If they are all confirmed, it could be odd.

Eric Soderholm

It bothers me to see people asking thousands of dollars. It's not right.

Connie Maute

He was about 10 to 12 weeks old and his left eye was swollen three times its normal size. It was so swollen he couldn't blink. They had no idea what to do and were asking if we would be good Samaritans and take him in and find him a home.

Gilbert Gallegos

He wants to expand, obviously. He'll be asking for more than $5 million, but we're not ready to give a dollar figure.