All Quotes

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
‐‐ Bill Hicks

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.
‐‐ Jessica Capshaw

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.
‐‐ Frank Grillo

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
‐‐ E. E. Cummings

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.
‐‐ Conway Twitty

Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.
‐‐ Jane Haddam

Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on.
‐‐ Jerry Leiber

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.
‐‐ Josiah Royce

Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.
‐‐ Carmen Agra Deedy

Listen to me: Leek is a vegetable. It can be the center of a dish.
‐‐ Jose Andres

Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.
‐‐ Don Miguel Ruiz

Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.
‐‐ Sean Bean

Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
‐‐ Benmont Tench

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
‐‐ Kara DioGuardi

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
‐‐ Soren Kierkegaard

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
‐‐ Denis Waitley

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.
‐‐ Sri Chinmoy

Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
‐‐ Buddy Guy

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.
‐‐ Mike Dirnt

Listen to the sound of silence.
‐‐ Paul Simon

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
‐‐ Richard Bach

Listen to your heart more than your head. This motto will get you in trouble, but it's never boring.
‐‐ Brad Barkley

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.
‐‐ Glenn Hughes

Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.
‐‐ Anthony J. D'Angelo

Listen to your mom and dad! They are almost always right, especially about boys.
‐‐ Melissa Ordway

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
‐‐ Ken Kesey

Listen, we all have to agree that there is too much litigation going on in this world. But every year it seems to multiply tenfold. Why can't we stop it? Well, it's because the lawmakers in Congress and the Senate are almost all lawyers, too!
‐‐ James Belushi

Listen, we're going to have to fight for every vote.
‐‐ David Plouffe

Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.
‐‐ L.A. Reid

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.
‐‐ Paul Mooney

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.
‐‐ Joseph Kosinski

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
‐‐ Jack Kevorkian

Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.
‐‐ Joseph Prince

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

Listen with your eyes for feelings.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.
‐‐ John Lydon

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.
‐‐ Sam Mendes

Listen, you only tease the ones you love.
‐‐ John Boehner

Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
‐‐ Billy Collins

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.
‐‐ John Amery

Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it's all about.
‐‐ Andrew Zuckerman

Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.
‐‐ David Wenham

Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.
‐‐ Philip Selway