Listenings For Beginners Quotes

#1. I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#2. The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#3. Lessons are good but there's a lot inside of us that can be pulled out.

Victor Wooten

#4. You just have to be the kind of guy to get people to do things.

Donald Trump

#5. Heroism
that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

Terry Zwigoff

#7. Humanized gods are too small to captivate my imagination, or be worthy of my fullest allegiance.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.

Jonathan Raymond

#9. The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

Terence McKenna

#10. I've always been kind of a hermit.

Hayden Christensen

#11. Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

Willie Stargell

#12. The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world.

Jean Wilson

#13. The glittering filament, finer than a hair, is far less than a denier in thickness. When a ray of sunlight struck it at the window at which I was examining it, I saw the thread blaze with all the colours of the spectrum.

Leena Krohn

#14. Remember and understand well that where Peter is, there is the Church; that those who refuse to associate in communion with the Chair of Peter belong to Antichrist, not to Christ. He who would separate himself from the Roman Pontiff has no further bond with Christ.

Pope Leo XIII

#15. We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.

Robert Morley