#lis

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#comes #disability #disabled #illinois #list

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#key #listening #more #much #talking

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words. ↗

— Ronald Heifetz

#change

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#boy #growing #growing up #having #listen

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#army #church #had #indian #individualist

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed. ↗

— John Eaton

#being #experience #failed #how #i

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer. ↗

— Barney Frank

#going #jail #lawyer #listen #serious

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive. ↗

— Richard Eberhart

#any #central #death #establish #feelings

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#myth #people #publishers #read #things