Famous quotes containing the word listen:
“they know me,
they help me unravel,
they listen with ears made of conch shells,
they speak back with the wine of the best region.
They are my staff.
They comfort me.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I’ll not listen to reason.... Reason always means what someone else has got to say.”
—Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)
“Neither look at nor listen to what is improper; do not speak or act without observing propriety.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucian Analects.