Best 476 quotes in «hearing quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

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

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

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.

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

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?

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.

Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.

Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea.

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

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

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow.

So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

Speak up, speak often and don’t worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.

The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.

The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.

The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right to a hearing by the value of what they say, and not by virtue of who is saying it. Today, authority has to earn respect by the intrinsic value of what it says, not by the force of its imposition.

The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

The love shown in Christ by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ to do all in our power to see to it that the Message of Salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ Our Saviour was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news.