Best 476 quotes in «hearing quotes» category

Most of the comics that I talk to I've never talked to for more than ten minutes ever. So 95 percent of the time you're really hearing the first conversation between me and that guy on the podcast.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.

Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, ‘I had so much more for you, but you held on too tightly.’

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there?

My policy will be to detain and deport every illegal alien who is apprehended in this country. And we'll do it with an expedited hearing process so that millions of illegal aliens are not released into the general population with some hearing date down the road.

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.

Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.

"No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you... Declining to hear "no" is a signal that someone is either seeking control or refusing to relinquish it.

Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

No matter what you do, you're always hearing something.

Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.

Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing.

Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.

Often, particularly with voices, you're hearing horrible things, demon voices, and voices telling them that they're not worth it or that they're going to kill somebody. In those moments, they're overcoming things.

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.

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

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you've been, remember how much your imagination created for you.

[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?

People get so burned out on hearing about sexism, but you know what? I would love to burn out on it. I would love to never talk about that again, but until we're all equal I shall have to fight, and remain fighting.

People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.

Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

People are still hearing your music. They might not be buying it, but they might be having it and you don't know it. Your music is still out there.

Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!

Republican hawks like John McCain and Lindsey Graham who are very skeptical of [Rex Tillerson]. At the same time the Democrats will portray him as a climate criminal because he heads a big oil company. So, he'll be in for really tough confirmation hearings.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.

Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense.

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is.

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.

Since hearing beauty in something is essentially a positive response and hearing ugliness is negative, might it ultimately be more difficult for an open-minded listener to define ugliness than it is to define beauty?

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.