Listens Intently Quotes

#1. Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

Hector Hugh Munro

#2. The world is made of countless threads that connect all things. These threads give the world both its color and its life.

Marie Lu

#3. I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.

Marcel Proust

#4. In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.

Matthew Weiner

#5. His high school girlfriend. I caught them in the act." "You caught them having sex at Homestyle Buffet?" Carlos chimes in, confused and maybe a little amused.

Simone Elkeles

#6. He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.

Soroosh Shahrivar

#7. Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean and limit; of spiritual gain as against loss; of truth as against falsehood.

Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

#8. It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

Martin Amis

#9. The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

John Cheever

#10. When you act a scene with Sidney Poitier, he listens intently to every word you say. You can feel your words hit him. He makes the scene utterly real.

Judy Geeson

#11. Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You're going to shoot down a fucking starship. It'll be an experience.

Iain Banks

#12. Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

Jim Goad

#13. The face that's in the mirror when I don't like what I see / I guess that's just the cowboy in me,

Tim McGraw

#14. The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

Nicole Krauss

#15. You must look like a money person for clients to trust you.

Michael Lee-Chin

#16. If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.

Martin Luther