Billboard Easy Listening

Famous quotes containing the words billboard, easy and/or listening:

“I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

“Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he took a nap.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Listening to learn isn’t about giving advice—at least not until asked—but about trying to understand exactly what someone means, how it is that someone looks at and feels about her particular situation.... Listening to learn from a daughter in adolescence, conspiring with her thoughts and feelings, keeps a mother in touch with a daughter’s growing and changing self.”
—Elizabeth Debold (20th century)