Silent Hearer Quotes

#1. I don't think much of Tito Ortiz. He needs to grow balls and sign to fight Chuck Liddell.

Tank Abbott

#2. Department store Santas are apparently being trained to lower children's expectations about toys because of the recession. Yeah, it's weird when you ask Santa for a train set and he's like, 'Yeah, how 'bout a bus token?

Jimmy Fallon

#3. The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.

Isamu Noguchi

#5. The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#6. This was a man who didn't see it coming . . . he WAS it coming, and without him, white America, you would not look or act or think the way you do.

Bruce Springsteen

#7. Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

Utah Phillips

#8. If I build your hopes I would never shatter your dreams for always we will be a team!!

Marcia Shury

#9. If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.

Ryne Sandberg

#10. We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real ... relate to our lives.

Eddie Vedder

#11. I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting ... It can be sometimes that delineated.

Chelsea Cain

#12. No one who worked in "Corrections" appeared to give any thought to the purpose of our being there, any more than a warehouse clerk would consider the meaning of a can of tomatoes, or try to help those tomatoes understand what the hell they were doing on the shelf.

Piper Kerman