Listen

Famous quotes containing the word listen:

    When you listen to gongs and drums, listen to the music; when you listen to someone talk, listen to his tone of voice.
    Chinese proverb.

    “I have answered three questions, and that is enough,”
    Said his father; “don’t give yourself airs!
    Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
    Be off, or I’ll kick you downstairs!”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    Know how to live within yourself: there is in your soul a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by the noise without; daylight will drive them away: listen to their singing and be silent.
    Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873)