One Hears Quotes

52 quotes by 45 authors

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief… — John Cheever
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced. — Gaston Bachelard
I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything… — Tim Winton
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. — Oscar Wilde
When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana. The purpose of… — E.W. Jackson
The Ninja, as you know, operates by stealth. And so, case in point: I put out records... no one hears them! I make videos... (whispers)… — Henry Rollins
The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears. — J.R.R. Tolkien
MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to… — Richard Holbrooke
There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat… — Joy Williams
The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary.… — Iannis Xenakis
Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in… — Albert J. Nock
When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only… — Eberhard Weber
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
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no… — Maurice Druon
An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it. — Mahatma Gandhi
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates… — J C Ryle
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth. — Gaston Bachelard
The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it. — Mahatma Gandhi
Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely,… — Anne Michaels
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. — Harold Bloom

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