I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn… — Adela Rogers St. Johns Copy Share Image
As far as the media is concerned, they ought to hate me. Before I came along, they had a monopoly. Before I… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I can say that you [Jill Sander] are my successor on the Green Party ticket so I know a little bit about… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener… — Alex Goot Copy Share Image
It always takes two. There's the speaker and the listener, you and the audience. You've worked long hours and it comes down… — Gillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for… — Ledisi Copy Share Image
I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
Obviously the trouble with having a hit with something like a cover of a ballad, you attract a whole new set of… — Tracey Thorn Copy Share Image
Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
It's just amazing how television permeates the entire world from people who are just listeners and viewers to people of considerable importance… — Robert Vaughn Copy Share Image
Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts. — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound… — Raymond Scott Copy Share Image
I like to surprise the listener a little bit and also surprise myself when I write the music. — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go...… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity. — John Hall Copy Share Image
The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by… — George Steiner Copy Share Image