William Galvin Quotes & Sayings

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. — Nhat Hanh

No craving void left aching in the soul. — Alexander Pope

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here. — Steve Stockman

...living in Rome is either a one or a two, or a nine or ten. Not much in between. And some days it's both. — Judith Works

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable. — Edgar Allan Poe

She is quiet for a moment. "have you ever been swimming in the summer", she asks, "when a cloud comes in front of the sun? You know how, for a few seconds, you're absolutely freezing in th water and you think you'd better get out and dry off? But then all of a sudden the sun's back out and you're warm again and when you tell people how much fun you had swimming you wouldn't even think to mention those clouds." Cara shrugs. "That's what it's like, with my father." -Cara — Jodi Picoult

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control. — Juan Gabriel

My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since. — Johnny Griffin

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head. — Les Claypool

The secret tactic of a good hard bargainer is to know when to compromise. — Rachel Cohn

There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society. — Nicholas A. Christakis

Hey, disease boy!" Norton shouted. "We know what you got. It's called — Kate DiCamillo

I'm going to outplay you. That's the mentality I have, and you should want to outplay me. — Brian Jordan

The sign was done in blue lights and it kind of hung like a ghost there in the dripping trees. It swung and you could hear it creak. Just the sign, and nothing else. — Gil Brewer

I'm not really interested in making money. — Steven Spielberg