Famous Quotes & Sayings

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I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way.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

Richard L. Evans

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

Robert Orben

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Sarah Dessen

As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.

Sandra Cisneros

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

Will Oldham

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

William Golding

Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.

William Arthur Ward

Before you speak, listen.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

Woody Allen

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Richard Rorty

I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.

Reba McEntire

If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

River Phoenix

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Robert Smith

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

Robert M. Gates

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

Richard D. James

Well, I just bought a massive bank and I've moved into it on my own.

Tori Amos

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

Rod Stewart

Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.

W. C. Fields

I was almost put out of business by a well-meaning corpse.

Rick Riordan

Well that was sucktastic

Ronald Reagan

You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between left or right. Well, I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down.

Robert Jordan

Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.

Kurt Cobain

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Khalil Gibran

You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.