Hearing Quotes

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

Mike Tyson has been accused of being a homosexual. What change do I have, you know? Everyone's in the same boat? Who could possibly care or believe anything after hearing that, really?

[T]he people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East.

Sometimes someone feels like nothing goes their way, and then something really good happens. For me, hearing that I made someone happy makes me feel so alive!

I listen to music constantly, and I'm always hearing things I love that I'm excited to use.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.

Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up

Apart from sharing my tips on toys or snacks, I'm open to hearing new ideas from other moms. I want to learn, too.

If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.

I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent.

'One Night Only,' the words I'll be hearing from my agents when I tell them I'm coming back to Broadway.

Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.

As they went by Assail, the male was watching them. "Jesus, he really is blind" Wrath pulled up short and unsheathed his dagger, pointed it directly into the guys face. "But my hearing is just fine

Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write and communicate in a way that I hadn't experienced growing up.

A lot of times, if you watch sign language interpreters, there can be some lag time issues. When that happens, I think you lose the hearing audience.

The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.

Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

For me, hearing the term 'apply yourself' was like a crucifix to Bella Lugosi's Dracula. 'Ahhh, it burns!'

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.

All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields. The world is apparently floating in oil fields.

What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years old. So I'm a lot better than whatever material people have been hearing.

Nobody ever gets enough appreciation when they're behaving themselves, but there's no end to hearing about it when they're not.

Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks.

I like the atmosphere. You can't beat it when you're introduced. I like making a play and hearing the fans scream. I like the physical as well as the emotional aspect, especially when you win.

Women are more verbal than men. That's why when you see an elderly couple together, it's always the man who has the hearing aid.

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

I'm scared of haunted things, like hearing noises in my house and stuff. That scares me.

Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality.

Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.

I can't handle my own voice, even hearing it echoing on a cell phone. It's horrible.

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

I've always been kind of surrounded by music my whole life, so my earliest memories of it were just hearing it in the house.

When something is dramatized it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.