“Reading is the act of listening and speaking at the same time, with someone you've never met, but love. Even if you… — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it,… — Lady Caroline Lamb Copy Share Image
Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet,… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
The standard is clear. If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Technology has altered the way music sounds, how it’s composed and how we experience it. It has also flooded the world with… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Belief is a meaningless word. What does it mean? I believe something. Okay, now you have someone who is hearing voices and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Early on, before rock 'n' roll, I listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since I started making films, I've been a nut for dialogue. When I first saw Star Wars when I was 12 years… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
What I meant when I say that the media are bots, I don't want anybody misunderstand this. I'm watching CNN and one… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
Was it weird hearing from Jace?" asked Simon, his voice carefully neutral. "I mean, since you found out..." His voice trailed off.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I'm used to traveling. It's not a question of… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Our ability to fulfill any assignment is greatly enhanced when we understand the importance of the temple and pay close attention to… — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
You are hearing this song, and you're 16, and it's a song about love, or a girl. And then maybe there's a… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I remember hearing a good story about Jack Nicholson working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining [1980]. Nicholson was saying that, as… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy… — Chris Frantz Copy Share Image
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings.… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Put him in there and chain him up," he ordered curtly. "Yes, that chain, you fool - do you see any other… — Elizabeth Marie Pope Copy Share Image