Heard Quotes · Page 73

I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

— Steven Knight

When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records.…

— Ahmet Ertegun

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

— Anonymous

I heard a lot of Cat Stevens when I was a kid and, subliminally, I guess it had an effect.

— John Popper

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever…

— Martin Luther

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I…

— Rumi

I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.

— Zack Snyder

Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried,…

— Tupac Shakur

I was playing guitar before I heard The Beatles, but as I got older and listened to their tunes I realized they…

— Noel Gallagher

I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got…

— Ben Elton

Once I leave the studio I'm ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven't heard.

— Paul Smoker

I heard 'More Than A Feeling' for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and…

— Tom Scholz

You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.

— Aristophanes

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you…

— Harvey Keitel

I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and…

— Mary Oliver

I heard about a pastor in a church of 5,000 people who employed two seminary students whose main responsibility was to get…

— Mark Dever

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

— Francis Chan

The well heeded well heard.

— Dante Alighieri

I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

— Tavi Gevinson

Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined…

— Michael Foot

My son was staying with me, and we got up to watch it, just before they announced supporting actress, he came up…

— June Squibb

Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages…

— Alex Tabarrok

There's a difference between music that's original and music that's retro. A lot of bands now are kind of retro 70s whether…

— Bill Orcutt

Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to…

— William Mountford

Angels we have heard on High Tell us to go out and Buy.

— Tom Lehrer

Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to…

— Thomas C Foster

I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd…

— Jonny Greenwood

Before and after... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world,

— Padma Lakshmi

The procurator studied the new arrival with avid, and slightly fearful eyes. It was the kind of look one gives someone one…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Hey, Barack Obama had to give up his Blackberry. He's the first wired president. ... He might have to give his Blackberry…

— Jay Leno

Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?

— Oswald J. Smith

So when Community came up and then the movie roles started happening I was very grateful. I am trying to be careful…

— Joel McHale

I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to…

— Margaret Thatcher

I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that…

— Donald Dunn

Have you ever heard of a condom? Don't Carpathians have condoms? Because I'm thinking that if you're all that worried, a condom…

— Christine Feehan

From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in…

— Zora Neale Hurston

My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night…

— Pat Conroy