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I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way.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.

Matthew Morrison

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Bill Sharpe

Guys like Greg and Rusty grew up as watermen, because their dad's one, too. And being a hot surfer was secondary to being a true waterman.

Bob DiBiasio

Hal was a real journalist. He grew up in a time when newspapers were kings and always kept the sense that the printed word was magic.

Quinton Aaron

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

Laura Vandervoort

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Sean Maguire

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

Stefan Edberg

I think that over the years people grew to understand what I stood for. They knew what type of player I was. I think they respected me for that.

Sue Hershey

We talked a lot about how that region grew and how students were recruited. We need to be ready to train a workforce for these jobs.

Mirek Porosa

When he settled down, his volleyball level just grew tremendously.

Whoopi Goldberg

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

Zak Orth

I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

Yehuda Berg

When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

Morgan Freeman

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

Julia Stiles

I pretty much grew up in public.

Julie Gonzalo

I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

Brian McKnight

I grew up in a time where anything was possible.

Ann Kirkpatrick

I grew up learning to do more with less.