Hearing Quotes - Page 11

It's just these moments in hip-hop where you feel invincible. It felt good hearing the music on the radio and in cars, skating rinks, and clubs.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.

For reason's measurements, which attain unto temporal things, do not attain unto things that are free from time-just as hearing does not attain unto whatever is not-audible, even though these things exist and are unattainable by hearing.

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection.

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.

After creating something and hearing from someone that it really helped them or changed their life motivates me to continue doing this.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog.

Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing.

She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.

I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves.

Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

When you're hearing somebody and you're not seeing them, your brain naturally creates a version of them. Then you feel closer to them because you've created them.

When I talk about having good hearing, I don't mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don't mean just looking, but looking at yourself.

At one congressional hearing, Bishop Francis Kalabat complained that administration officials are overlooking what's happening to his fellow Chaldean Christians.

The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.