“It is inappropriate to have Tim listening to the triangle and then have a deejay come on and... go into Radiohead or something.”

“When are you gonna come down?
When are you going to land?
I should have stayed on the farm,
I should have listened to my old man.”

“The duty sergeant was going through his routine of asking each brawling set of prisoners who the Billy and who the Tim was. If the handshake is right he will let the Billy go and slap the Tim around a bit. That way everybody's happy. The Billy gets to feel superior and delude himself that being a non-churchgoing 'protestant' is somehow important; the Tim gets to feel persecuted and indulge his paranoia about masonic conspiracies; the sergeant gets to slap the Tim around.”

“I am pleased to announce that I've decided to go net-zero on swear words and bad language. In the event that I should say something inappropriate I pledge to compensate that by saying something nice. #COP26,”

“I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.”

“When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.”

“If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.”

“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.”

“No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.”

“Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.”