Quotes with hearing

  • As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.
  • Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
  • The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
  • A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
  • When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.
  • I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Branford Marsalis A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • James Baldwin A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Brendan Myers All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Bob Monkhouse Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
    Obituary in The Independent
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Beau Bridges And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Bell Hooks As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.
    Ending Racism Killing Rage
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Samuel Butler Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Robert Bresson Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • William Wordsworth For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • William Lyon Phelps God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • William Wordsworth Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Abbey Lincoln I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Vance Havner I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Alexander Woollcott I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Vance Havner I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Bill Bruford If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • George Eliot If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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