Heard Quotes · Page 210

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

— Mavis Staples

Almost halfway down the aisle, she saw someone she wasn't expecting, and she almost stumbled on her satin heels. Kingsley Martin stood…

— Melissa de la Cruz

I first heard of Ulver reading the 'Lords of Chaos' book.

— Matt Skiba

It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.

— Peter O'Toole

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing…

— Gerry Mulligan

[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed…

— Moderata Fonte

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

— Rita Dove

Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory,…

— Kenny Werner

I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in…

— Peter Beinart

I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from…

— Steven Levitt

I went from people just thinking I was, like, a baby to people thinking I’m this, like, sex freak that really just…

— Miley Cyrus

I don't think he could ever be a serial killer. He's way too shy. That Ted Bundy guy, he was pretty outgoing…

— Meg Cabot

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

— Constance Baker Motley

To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of…

— Deborah Tannen

I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you…

— Alistair Cooke

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel…

— Samuel Johnson

He - A.J.[Muste] never got much credit, never got much attention. For example, I wrote a biography of him and nobody ever…

— Nat Hentoff

We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors…

— George Meany

People get to a certain age and success that they stop being curious. I'm still curious because I haven't really had that…

— Jill Sobule

There's no record that you done heard me produce that I spent more than ten minutes on.

— Zaytoven

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

— Steve Lacy

I don't know any celebrities. I know a lot of people that most people have never heard of.

— Robert Christgau

Don't think for one minute, whoever you are, that you're not important. You're so vitally important to stand up and be heard…

— Sally Field

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that…

— Anonymous