Listening To Heartbeats Quotes & Sayings

Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain. — Arlene Blum

I listened; I wrote; I learned. I do not know why so many women trusted me enough to speak to me, but underneath anything I write one can hear the percussive sound of their heartbeats. If one has to pick one kind of pedagogy over all others, I pick listening. It breaks down prejudices and stereotypes; it widens self-imposed limits; it takes one into another's life, her hard times and, if there is any, her joy too. — Andrea Dworkin

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant. — Perry Brass

I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are. — Pablo Schreiber

I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too many people who think they have the answer to a good screenplay and they don't. No one knows. — Elmore Leonard

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen. — Aaron Neville

The biggest difference between the person who lives his or her dreams and the person who aspires is the decision to convert that first spark of motivation into immediate action. — Adam Braun

And the blood pulses hard, too hard, and some sweet internal assailant comes and quickly shreds the muscles of her shoulders and neck, and soon everything will fall and dissipate, nose and ears and the three gray cells she has left, and with all her strength she tries to calm down, she must stop this, but she is unable to give up these heartbeats, the forgotten precise heartbeats which reply as an echo, and she remembers his hand upon the tablets of her heart, her hand on his chest
feel it, our prisoners are corresponding. But how? She is amazed. How did I let Shaul lead me on like this? Where have I been all evening? But she knows exactly how and where, what she was listening to and what her heart went out to. Look at you, she sighs. No, really, look at you, you and your reaching heart. — David Grossman

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes. — Evelyn Waugh

Painting is silent poetry. — Plutarch

When you hate something, you chain yourself to it. — Steve Maraboli

If you are strong, torture not the weak,
And thus lay not the axe to thy empire. — Guru Gobind Singh