“When E. F. Hollings talks, nobody listens.”
Ernest Hollings (1922–2019) politician from the United States
Alluding to the E. F. Hutton commercial of the 1980s, in reference to his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1984. A sharp tongue can still draw victim's blood, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Connelley, Joel, February 3, 1986, December 8, 2009 http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1986/8601030327.asp,
“Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Wall and Piece (2005)
“Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist
Toutes choses sont dites déjà; mais comme personne n'écoute, il faut toujours recommencer. <br class="br"> Le Traité du Narcisse https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Trait%C3%A9_du_narcisse (The Treatise of the Narcissus) <br class="br">Nothing is said that has not been said before. -- Terence
