Listenting Quotes & Sayings

As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass. — Billy Sheehan

Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges. — Wendy Kopp

We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do. — Hermann Hesse

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you? — Jeremy Paxman

Right now, the biggest shared value that I can think of is that you should treat others the way you want to be treated, and just have some good sense about what matters to you. — Craig Newmark

'Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names. — Ari Millen

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time. — Brian Eno

We love only what we do not wholly possess. — Marcel Proust

Masks reveal the shape of your soul and the state of the world and, in today's world, everyone wears a mask. — Chloe Thurlow

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing. — Dorothy Allison

The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts. — Ferdinand Porsche

...[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words and phrases; no, what you will hear will be a straightforward speech in the first words that occur to me, confident as I am in the justice of my cause; and I do not want any of you to expect anything different. — Socrates

Not to perceive the little weaknesses and the idle but innocent affectations of the company may be allowable as a sort of polite duty. The company will be pleased with you if you do, and most probably will not be reformed by you if you do not. — Lord Chesterfield

When you were here before
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry — Radiohead