Hearing Quotes

[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.

I think in the first place hearing the music inside of you is very soothing, very comforting. For me there always been, if you like, a spiritual connection between myself and music.

I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.

Hearing a crowd scream is the coolest sound in the world. It can motivate me to do anything.

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

If you’re not hearing the music of the gospel in your home, please remember these two words: keep practicing.

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

When you're hearing somebody and you're not seeing them, your brain naturally creates a version of them. Then you feel closer to them because you've created them.

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.

The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.

As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.

I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves.

The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.

When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.

Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing.

I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.

Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

I believe people have a little more interest in reading what I'm saying or hearing me speak because they know I ain't gonna sugarcoat it. Because I give them the truth.

When you hear the elephant music you're hearing what they mean to make.

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".

Waihi Beach. It's a lovely beach, and we're right on the shore and I get a lot of pleasure out of waking up in the morning and hearing the waves roll in.

I do not know when it was, nor where it was, nor how young I may have been, but I can recall. . . a sudden feeling of happiness at hearing the voice of the pines.

I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog.

It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

As much as I liked acting for its playfulness and the reward of hearing big laughs wash over you on a stage, I always felt I should do something that I could control.

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

After creating something and hearing from someone that it really helped them or changed their life motivates me to continue doing this.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.