Listenin Quotes

#1. Yeah, I'm listenin'," Morganith answered, "and Arda once told me pregnant Alteri women can see what might come to pass, not what will come to pass. What they see is just what people chose to do of their own shitty free will, not what they were forced to do by some gods.

Ash Gray

#2. I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.

Steve Harvey

#3. And listenin' tuh dat kind uh talk is jus' lak openin' yo' mouth and lettin' de moon shine down yo' throat.

Zora Neale Hurston

#4. Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.

Mose Allison

#5. Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.

Mae West

#6. Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

C.S. Lewis

#7. Listenin to nothin, takin no suggestions,
All destructive criticisms that can't improve on perfection.

Daniel Dumile

#8. The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Hah!" said Granny Weatherwax. "I should just say it is a folk song! I knows all about folk songs. Hah! You think you're listenin' to a nice song about ... cuckoos and fiddlers and nightingales and whatnot, and then it turns out to be about ... something else entirely," she added darkly.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Ah done growed ten feet higher from jus' listenin' tuh you, Janie. Ah ain't satisfied with mahself no mo'. Ah means tuh make Sam take me fishin' wid him after this.

Zora Neale Hurston

#11. I dun knw things get trapped
In my mind
Then itss smethin
That I wanna find
I dun get the answer
Is there anyone listenin to me
No one there to see
To see the pain and the agony
Inside ur beautiful heart
To see that u kissed the pain
And kicked everythin apart

B. Bhardwaz

#12. People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.

Corey Taylor

#13. France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

Rich Lowry

#14. I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

Bill Veeck

#15. Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

Robert Morgan

#16. If I get out of this, the first thing I'm doing is enrolling in a Spanish class.

Holly S. Roberts

#17. On the law that requires women to wait twenty-four hours before they are permitted to have an abortion: I think it's a good law. The other day I wanted to go get an abortion. I really
wanted an abortion, but then I thought about it and it turned out I was just thirsty.

Sarah

#18. Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

Heinz Von Foerster

#19. Censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books
with one hand.

Robin Morgan

#20. And that was when I realised I wasn't the strongest man in the world after all. I was the weakest.

Charlotte McConaghy

#21. She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes.

Emile Zola

#22. I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.

Kiki Dimoula

#23. True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

Adyashanti

#24. Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

Rafael Vinoly

#25. Stop giving yourself permission to fail;
start giving yourself permission to succeed.
You cannot win battles you have already lost in your mind.
You cannot lose battles you have already won in your heart.

Matshona Dhliwayo