Hearing Quotes
1409 quotes by 1100 authors
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There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides…
— Christiane Amanpour
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Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing, but in…
— Christiane Amanpour
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Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used…
— Charles Ives
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I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because…
— Steven Weinberg
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For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.…
— Jacques Attali
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It's a great feeling as a coach to see your athlete run well, hearing the oohs and aahs as she picks people off.
— Unknown Author
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And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to…
— Sibel Edmonds
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds…
— Plotinus
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There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel…
— Roy Haynes
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I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent in a great…
— Pete La Roca
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I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using the higher intervals…
— Charlie Parker
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.
— Oliver Sacks
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Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
— Charles Bass
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Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as…
— Michael Mandelbaum
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The love shown by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ, to do all in our…
— Haile Selassie
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My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away,…
— Bela Fleck
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A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were…
— Linda Hogan
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