"You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself."

-- Ruggiero Ricci

#Listening Quotes

“The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.”
“I'm just not a great practice player.”
“Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.”

Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.12, Pan Macmillan
“They will stop calling brides beautiful after todayâ€”you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.”
“Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.”
“My film school is making movies. But, I do think that being an actor has served me immensely, as both a writer and director, in terms of knowing what is playable and what will be fun to play, for actors, and also how to communicate to actors on set, and not screw them up and get them in their head.”
“[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.”
“The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.”

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