L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.”
“Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.”
“Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.”
Source: With Malice Toward Some
“Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.”
“Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.”
“Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.”
“Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.”
“Listening to Don Moen's songs always reminds me of my darkest moments
Then I was always listening to them and crying, locking myself alone in the room, shedding tears, questioning God, singing along with Don Moen
But today, whenever I listen to the songs, I always smile.
Indeed, God never sleeps, He never slumbers”
“Listening to Eddy describe his relationship with our mom seemed to indicate that what I feared would be my reality. He never talked poorly about our mother, but he was as honest and sincere as he could be. In a way, he was almost defensive of her to us – trying to help us understand what life had been like for her, so that we could comprehend the choices that she had made.”
Source: Are You My Mommy?
“Listening to EDM while I worked gave me delusions of grandeur, but it kept me in a rhythm. It was the genre of my generation: the music of video games and computer effects, the music of the twenty-four-hour hustle, the music of proudly selling out. It was decadent and cheaply made, the music of ahistory, or globalization -or maybe nihilism, but fun. It made me feel like I had just railed cocaine, except happy. It made me feel like I was going somewhere.
Was this what it felt like to hurtle through the world in a state of pure confidence, I wondered, pressing my fingers to my temples - was this what it was like to be a man?”
Source: Uncanny Valley
“Listening to Eric Taylor is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes.”
“Listening to Evanescence makes me want to break up with a girl in real time as a giant antique hourglass falls to the floor in slow motion.”
“Listening to evangelicals bridges major political fault line.”
“Listening to Fournier's flowing, dignified cello, Hoshino was drawn back to his childhood. He used to go to the river every day to catch fish. Nothing to worry about back then, he reminisced. Just live each day as it came. As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the line it all changed.
Living turned me into nothing. Weird... People are born in order to live, right? But the longer I've lived, the more I've lost what's inside me—and ended up empty. And I bet the longer I live, the emptier, the more worthless, I'll become. Something's wrong with this picture. Life isn't supposed to turn out like this! Isn't it possible to shift direction, to change where I'm headed?”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Listening to God - which is a key part of practicing His presence - is not a method, but a walk with a person.”
Source: Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear God's Voice and Keep a Prayer Journal
“Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.”
“Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.”
“Listening to her heartbeat,
'I love you' He said.”
Source: The Mystic Soul
“Listening to her spooling out impractical and transcendental picture-concepts like a hyperventilating tickertape he felt the weight lift from him, floating in a sweet and putrid lager fart to dissipate beneath the starry, vast obsidian pudding bowl of closing time, inverted and set down upon the Burroughs as though keeping flies away.”
Source: Jerusalem
“Listening to her when she laughs. If that doesn’t take away your stress, she ain’t the one.”
“Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of a stream, catches a glimpse in the water of a white face or a moving limb and turns quickly away, refusing to help or to search for help. We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget or help them. Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighborhood of light we see our own face.”
Source: Faces in the water
“Listening to him play was like discovering an eagle in the wild. It was tumblingly bewitching. She could feel and hear genius she knew it.”
Source: Poughkeepsie
“Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.”
“Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.”
Source: Gerald's Game
“Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that someone looks at and feels about her particular situation.... Listening to learn from a daughter in adolescence, conspiring with her thoughts and feelings, keeps a mother in touch with a daughter's growing and changing self.”
“Listening to lectures on the class struggle (after I discovered that such a struggle had been going on for ages), I found that I had a great deal in common with the everyday workers. In other years I had felt that as a newspaper artist I was a member of a profession which enjoyed important privileges and in which a man might possibly rise to fame and fortune. But I saw now that everyone who did productive work of any kind was at the mercy of those who employed him. They could make or break him whenever they so willed...I was living in a world morally and spiritually diseased, and I was learning some of the reasons why.”
Source: Art Young: His Life and Times
“Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.”
Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism
“Listening to Madame Michel and seeing her cry, but above all seeing how it made her feel better to be able to tell her story to me, I understood something. I understood that I was suffering because I couldn’t make anyone else around me feel better. I understood that I have a grudge against Papa, Maman and above all Colombe because I’m incapable of being useful to them, because there’s nothing I can do for them. They are already too far gone in their sickness, and I am too weak. I can see their symptoms clearly but I’m not skilled to treat them and so as a result that makes me as sick as they are, only I don’t see it. Whereas when I was holding Madame Michel’s hand I could feel how I was sick, too. And one thing is sure, no matter what: I won’t get any better by punishing the people I can’t heal.”
Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.”
“Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.”
“Listening to music and driving - that's the best way to listen to music. You just kind of zone out. Driving's so futuristic - you're barely putting in any effort, and this huge machine is pummeling down a strip of concrete.”
“Listening to music as preparation or background for your work brings you into a creative mood... choose one type of music to calm down, another to reach a higher energy level, depending on the artwork you are doing.”
Source: The New Creative Artist
“Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.”
“Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it.”
“Listening to music in moments of sorrow or joy can go deeper.”
“Listening to music is equal to listening to your heart”
“Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.”
“Listening to music, reading literature, writing, and extended periods of personal introspection provide four prongs of the incitements available to form a conscious and subconscious designation of self. Other potential incentives that contribute to self-identity include religion and cultural events as well as painting, sculpture, dance, films, newspapers, television, Internet surfing, web sites, and online message boards.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Listening to music that I hate calms me down.”
“Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.”
Source: Masquerade and other stories
“Listening to my fans and seeing love and support through social media from them is what I live for.”
“Listening to my heartbeat was the only comfort I had. However, my heavy heart sinks from carrying what seems like everlasting pain. My heart is now ripped from my soul because I cannot feel the warm blood in my veins. I feel a cold front coming, and now my heart is frozen. I am cold—a cold-hearted soul. My heart no longer beats for borrowed peace because it is paralyzed from continually having to start over again. I have officially lost hope. What is hope? In my eyes, hope is a teaser. I had hoped that things will get better, but when? Hope is not for now—it is for the future. Therefore, I guess hope is saying that things will not be better today, but maybe years or decades from now. With that being said, hope is not faith. Hope is wishful thinking. Hope is always shattered by one disappointment after another.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“Listening to my inner child may not have been the most logical decision, but it was my happiest choice!”
Source: ELIS: Irish call girl
“Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.”
“Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.”
“Listening to my tutor tell me the story (of Khalid ibn al-Walid at the Battle of Mu'tah), I was overwhelmed with such pride in my history that I decided in that moment that I wanted to wear a headscarf, as a public marker that I belonged to this people. I wanted it to be so that before people even knew my name, the first thing that they would know about me is that I am a Muslim. I told myself that upon my return to the States, I would wear the headscarf with pride as my outward rebellion against the Islamophobia that had seized me and suffocated me for most of my life. With that decision, I inherited the entire history to which the hijab had been tied, and carried it on my head like an issue for public debate.”
Source: Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age Story
“Listening to nature's operating instructions.”
“listening to one another activates our mirror neurons and resonance circuitry (Iacoboni, 2009) so that we can be said to literally begin to inhabit one another's embodied emotional universe.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.”
“Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.”
Source: Prayer: The Great Conversation : Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Prayer