Hearing Quotes

1409 quotes by 1100 authors

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records. — Brian Wilson
My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around. — John Wooden
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. — Alexander Woollcott
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. — William Wordsworth
Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal… — Michael Eric Dyson
I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to… — Alber Elbaz
I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by… — Barack Obama
Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets… — Toni Morrison
Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away — Benjamin Franklin
Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying. — Milan Kundera
The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who… — Ron Rash
And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately in love with… — Paulette Jiles
. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a… — Sara Zarr
It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned… — Hermann Hesse
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to… — George Eliot
There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at… — Elizabeth Berg
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says. — Oscar Wilde
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has… — John Steinbeck
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I… — Jack Kerouac
The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's… — Unknown Author

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