Hearing Quotes · Page 25

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

— Gioachino Rossini

They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.

— Tom Smothers

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

— Meg Cabot

When you just hear one ignorant comment without getting the backstory or hearing the end of the story, it's frustrating.

— Scheana Shay

Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.

— Patrick Ewing

We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such…

— Austin O'Malley

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

— Chanakya

That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white…

— Kid Rock

My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who…

— Mike Myers

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it…

— Alexander Graham Bell

I think the artist has an ability to draw pictures for people to where they can process these messages that otherwise they…

— LeCrae

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son…

— William Lyon Phelps

I'm tired of hearing all this talk from people who don't understand the process of hard work-like little kids in the back…

— Nick Saban

Being respected by people on both sides of the aisle is really important to me - even in an age when giving…

— Kasie Hunt

A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of…

— Florence Nightingale

I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from…

— Simon McBurney

Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The Replacements definitely changed my life, I think they're just amazing. The thing that blew me away [a band like that] is…

— Ryan Jarman

As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary…

— Christiane Northrup

They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why…

— Roger Ailes

I'd like something that faces reality. We have 12 million people in this country that are undocumented - that's a reality. It's…

— Patrick Leahy

One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows…

— Criss Jami

Observe your cat. It is difficult to surprise him. Why? Naturally his superior hearing is part of the answer, but not all…

— Jeff Cooper

Religion means a binding. If a man does not feel himself a part of the Universe, and does not hear its pulse,…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

— John Lydon

Russian children typically hear racist and ethnic slurs against Caucasus natives at home before hearing it on the streets.

— Margarita Simonyan

Hearing Radney Foster was big for me, like hearing Al Green or R.E.M. for the first time.

— Darius Rucker

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

— Thomas A. Edison

Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.

— Simon Sinek

What I particularly liked about Nineties hip hop was it had a certain reverence for the groove that I hadn't been hearing…

— Michael McDonald

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

— Ben Casnocha

I really like to hear actors talk about acting, but I don't really like hearing myself talk.

— Michael Keaton

White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.

— Chris Rock

When you hear the elephant music you're hearing what they mean to make.

— Dave Soldier

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about…

— Charles Todd

My father, Kali Gannguli, is an arranger, composer and accordion player who has worked with Salilda whose songs I had grown up…

— Jeet Gannguli

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

— Fulton J. Sheen

I can't handle my own voice, even hearing it echoing on a cell phone. It's horrible.

— Jerusha Hess

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

— Brenda Ueland