I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene…

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

— Henry David Thoreau

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

— Leonard Nimoy

“Yell to be heard and no one will listen, speak in whispers and all will strain to hear.”

— Marina

Give me the end of the year an' its fun When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done; Bring all the wanderers home…

— Edgar Guest

They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there…

— Jay McShann

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

— Augustus

“As we move further away I can hear the old lady say, “Remember when we were like that, Ed?” To which the old man…

— Anna Bloom

“I say, did you hear me?" The old man shook a worn walking stick at the oak. "I said move it and I meant…

— Anonymous

When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the…

— John Paul Stevens

The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,…

— Robert Anton Wilson

The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected…

— Orrin Hatch

The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked…

— John Lennon

'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall…

— Matt Taibbi

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

— Anonymous

Women should be obscene and not heard.

— Groucho Marx