#hear

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#days #fall #few #i #lost

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#badly #either #hear #listening #lying

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#beautiful #brave #brief #butterflies #clever

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#brains #heart #passing #regret #restored

Home is where the heart is. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#heart #where

Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#heard #listened #want

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#criticisms #heard #i #loudly #people

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#beloved #desire #god #heart #humble

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#great #heart #kite #matters #small

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety." ↗

— Francis Quarles

#fearful #heart #lest #prudence #satiety