Heard Quotes · Page 27

The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.

— Dashiell Hammett

Why would I want to be fighting someone no one has heard of for the world title?

— Luke Campbell

“Individuals set boundaries to feel safe, respected, and heard.”

— Pamela Cummins

As a disabled person, I feel like a lot of times we don't get to be heard.

— Josh Blue

She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.

— Aaron Swartz

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

— Charlie Watts

AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.

— Bonnie Raitt

I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's…

— Q-Tip

I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard…

— Scarlett Johansson

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by…

— Omar Khayyam

Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rung the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if…

— Michael Fish

My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound…

— Stan Getz

I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.

— Mike Huckabee

I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room…

— Martha Graham

A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant…

— Lord Chesterfield

When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy.…

— Andrea Bocelli

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by…

— Dick Gephardt

Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed…

— James Gates Percival

Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not…

— Alan Moore

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.…

— Terrence McNally

I've got corporate executives, my bosses... this is true... who will text message me... and say, 'Hey a, heard you had chemotherapy…

— Stuart Scott

The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot,…

— Charles Spurgeon

The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he…

— John Boyne

I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then…

— Lloyd Jones

Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The Reverend grinned, his fangs flashing. "You know, I've heard this rumor… about a member of the Brotherhood who's celibate. Yeah, go…

— J.R. Ward

When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial…

— Edgar Mitchell

In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less…

— Ben E. King

Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating…

— Harlan Lane

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

— Henry David Thoreau

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.

— Richard Armour

What is heard and how it is heard is more important than what you say.

— Jason Scott Lee

Membership of an organisation is good, as long as you can make yourself heard.

— Mahathir Mohamad

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

— Leonard Cohen

You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?

— Bud Abbott

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

— Rita Dove

But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.

— Emanuel Swedenborg