Thomas Hood Quotes

I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

Thomas Hood

• Listening
• Silence
• Autumn
• Saws
• Mist
• Misty

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• I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Car
  • Listening
  • Ride

• It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Friends
  • Single

• I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Long
  • Song

• I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Long
  • Listening
  • Look

• When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Dance
  • Listening
  • Quiet

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Know

• Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Ocean

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Together
  • Soul

• My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Bad
  • Listening
  • Advice

• I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Home
  • Nice

• In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I grew up with horrible skin. I had cystic acne ever since I can remember. I ended up finally listening to those people who say you are what you eat.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Effort

• In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Start

• To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Silence

• Listening in response to criticism mandates a shift in our internal psyche that marks perhaps the most important single evolutionary shift humans can make.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Important
  • Single
  • Listening

• Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

  

  Burning Spear
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Focus
  • Listening
  • Summer

• It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune. The Growleywogs knew that they were disliked and avoided by every one, so they had become surly and unsociable even among themselves.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • People
  • Different
  • Strong

• You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Imagine
  • Move
  • Permission

• There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Work
  • Together
  • Stop

• I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Listening
  • Silence
  • Autumn