Hearing Quotes · Page 21

'Don't let your guard down and you won't get hurt,' I tell myself everyday. I must have a hearing problem.

— Anonymous

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

— Ben Okri

With the right support, a deaf child can do exactly the same as a hearing child, yet constantly, they're being failed.

— Rachel Shenton

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

— George Kennedy

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

— David Levithan

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a…

— Elizabeth Warren

We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.

— Francis Asbury

One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.

— Anonymous

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other…

— Bernie Krause

It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about…

— Pauline Quirke

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed…

— Cliff Stearns

I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last…

— Fred Savage

We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I…

— Rosa Parks

I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two…

— Naveen Jain

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between…

— Evelyn Glennie

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent…

— Nick Nolte

The only way to lose a kingdom is if your power drops or..well, if you're killed." "I'm sure Volusian would love to…

— Richelle Mead

The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in…

— Madeleine L'Engle

While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he…

— Jean Little

The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and…

— Peter Yarrow

There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark¦ their place in your heart is tender; a bruise…

— Sara Zarr

All people are special, and all moments are golden. There is no person and there is no time more special than another.…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain…

— Naomi Wolf

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

— Brian Wilson

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

— William Cowper

“I can't, I can't, I can't help hearing, I can't help seeing. I can't help it unless I run away.”

— Ian Cross

I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.

— Elizabeth George

My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives.

— Malala Yousafzai

I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music.

— Frantisek Kupka

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

— William Wordsworth

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close…

— Anonymous

I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen...

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“We talk a lot about the five senses: vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. I would add one more…imagination.”

— Wes Adamson

I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.

— Dustin Hoffman

Hearing you're going to have to go up to Duke University and check your heart out is not the most comforting thing.

— Aaron Boone

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth,…

— Lucy Stone

“If you haven't developed an ear to listen past the unspoken, you haven't developed hearing.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

— Dalai Lama

I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.

— Tom Waits