#list

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#expense #flatterers #listen #live #them

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. ↗

— John Fowles

#common #create #many #need #novelists

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him? ↗

— Brigham Young

#better way #entertain #golden #him #listen

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#ever #experiences #family #first #first time

Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#because #care #casual #drive #easy

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives. ↗

— David Friedman

#advisor #got #i #kill #letter

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. ↗

— Don Marquis

#had #listen #many #optimists #person

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#books #days #infamous #listen #made

When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#first #governor #i #listed #number

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#black-and-white #days #experience #found #images