Heard Quotes · Page 66

I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like…

— Christopher McDougall

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out…

— Oscar Nunez

All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if…

— Fernando Pessoa

I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.

— Steve Vai

I have never driven an IndyCar, but based on everything I've heard, the characteristics and how you drive them are 180 degrees different.

— Kevin Harvick

You have to fight. You know, you don't want to fight, but you have to fight to make your show your own,…

— Billy Eichner

Every single American has a voice and ... it ought to be heard in the halls of power every day.

— Howard Dean

I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but…

— Joseph Mawle

... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a…

— Joe Hill

Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and…

— Taylor Lautner

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard…

— John Coltrane

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy,…

— Judith Viorst

Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily," he said. "You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota…

— Robin McKinley

The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a…

— Ali Partovi

I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred…

— Edward Gibbon

I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called "Seesaw." I came offstage and heard the applause of…

— Giancarlo Esposito

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I…

— John Keats

I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island…

— William Butler Yeats

I heard of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was 15 years old. I heard of Rosa Parks. And I met Dr.…

— John Lewis

To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what…

— Joseph Needham

Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a…

— James Gleick

At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude -…

— Ernest Bramah

Rick said, "Is there some place we can go and talk?" "You want to talk?," Keir raised an eyebrow. "I never thought…

— Josh Lanyon

According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in…

— Melody Beattie

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

— Ned Rorem

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between…

— Marianne Williamson

The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.

— Bob Newhart

I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of…

— David Levithan

When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.

— Ellie Goulding

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter…

— Mark Burnett

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing…

— Gore Vidal

I heard I'm going to have scenes with Lady Gaga so I'm hoping it's true. I know of one scene I have.

— Kathy Bates

Here's to the drunken Marine With beer in his canteen! You've heard of the Unknown Soldier But, never an unknown Marine!

— John Ripley

I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, 'You should give it…

— James Bay

“When I first heard your voice, my heart leapt in my chest as if it recognized you as its owner from another…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made…

— Helen Vendler

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy,…

— Henry David Thoreau

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

— Diana Ross

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit…

— Steven Pinker