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Listener Quotes (page 78)

They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other Michael Chabon
If you do not listen to theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones! C. S. Lewis
pity this busy monster, manunkind'pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond)plays with the bigness of his littleness--- electrons deify one razorbladeinto a mountainrange; lenses extendunwish through curving wherewhen till unwishreturns on its unself. A world of madeis not a world of born --- pity poor fleshand trees, poor stars and stones, but never thisfine specimen of... E. E. Cummings
Homer Wells, listening to Big Dot Taft, felt like her voice – dulled. Wally was away, Candy was away, and the anatomy of a rabbit was, after Clara, no challenge; the migrants, whom he’d so eagerly anticipated, were just plain hard workers; life was just a job. He had grown up without noticing when? Was there nothing remarkable in the transition? John Irving
I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. Emily Bronte
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books . . . George Washington Carver
Hillary Clinton quote: "If we only stopped to listen to them for a few minutes, kids..."
If we only stopped to listen to them for a few minutes, kids could tell us that we move too fast, for their good and ours. Hillary Clinton
Kin Hubbard quote: "A good listener is usually thinking of something else."
A good listener is usually thinking of something else. Kin Hubbard
And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad. Ellen DeGeneres
Jared Sparks quote: "When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you..."
When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something. Jared Sparks
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. A. A. Milne
J. K. Rowling quote: "No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you,..."
No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you. J. K. Rowling
That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a closed door that he’s lost the key for. So his memory became like secrets held away from his own mind. But these secrets were noisy things; they babbled and muttered behind the door, and so if he listened closely he might catch a snatch of something he once knew well. Walter Mosley
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. Henry Miller
In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out in us, unless we are lucky enough to know intelligent, imaginative, sympathetic people who love us and have the magnanimity to encourage us, to believe in us, by listening, by praise, by appreciation, by laughing. If you are going to write, you must become aware of this richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there so that you can write opulently with with self-trust. Once you... Brenda Ueland

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