#listens

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

The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens. ↗

— David Frum

#biggest #event #everybody #great #great power

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#black #character #goth #ipod #just

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#else #listens #really #see #try

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#listens #man #says #she #woman

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. ↗

— Walter Pater

#developed #earlier #element #general #important

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#begins #child #climax #compare #ending

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#listens #says #single #single word #such

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#her #husband #listens #only #only time

When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that. ↗

— Jason Sudeikis

#because #better #folks #funny #handle