Heard Quotes

A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.

I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.

The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran]. There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.

I watched Elvis Presley become - I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard. I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.

It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.

People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he'll follow through on his promises.

I need to hear something about how he's going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that's not heard, then we've got to constantly challenge him.

Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

People now are beginning to cheer for me. I've never heard that before. .. Maybe things are turning a bit.

I feel really comfortable playing to people who've never heard Beach House before. We've always had fun opening because you get to try to impress people.

And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.

I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!

The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly to be heard.

I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?

William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?

"Listen." There's so much to be heard.

That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.

When I was first introduced to the music of Jacques Brel, I was totally floored. I had never heard anything as intelligent or sexy or angry as his music.

I don't read reviews, as a rule. I can't, because I can't control myself. But I've heard that [the Duplasses] were happy, so that's good.

The Olympics are great. For two weeks we become absolutely fascinated in these people we've never heard of before and will never think of again.

"Nags" nag because they feel they aren't being heard.

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.

I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

I'll never run for office. But I intend, either on the fiscal commission or on issues like immigration, to hopefully have my voice be heard.

Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.

I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.

I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.

We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.

Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree.

I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.