Hears Quotes

424 quotes by 357 authors

The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed through… — Raymond Scott
The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at… — Benjamin Franklin
Living wisdom cannot be confined within words, but it can be hinted at through situations, much as a specific feature of an otherwise undistinguished landscape… — Robert Svoboda
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.… — Gordon Allport
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of… — Gaston Bachelard
Most important, Christmas should be a spiritual experience....Christmas is not just an event in time; it is a spiritual experience available to every person who… — Warren W. Wiersbe
We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, everyone… — Rumi
The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of… — Chris Ware
There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs. — A. E. Housman
They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the man who hears… — Natan Sharansky
One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears… — Gertrude Stein
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. — William Shakespeare
Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands. — Marsilio Ficino
One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men… — William Butler Yeats
Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and I… — Jack Handey
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning… — Leo Tolstoy
What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind belives. — Harry Houdini
I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one. — Alexis Korner
The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he pursues;… — Claude Bernard
A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's… — Sheldon Vanauken

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