Hearing Quotes
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People say, "I'm tired of hearing about the war in Iraq. I'm tired of hearing about it." And it makes me realize how few people have deeper connections with it, as far as knowing people who have come back paralyzed or who have died, or families that have been affected . . . If they had a connection to it, then they wouldn't be tired of hearing about it.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there?
Karen Scalf Linamen
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Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.
Anton Webern
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I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.
Alexander Sutherland Neill
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Hearing your voice and your instrument kind of breathe in the room, it affects the way you perform the songs. For instance, if you have that reverb, you can give the songs a little more space. You can play them a little slower or you can play less of the guitar part and just let it open up, which I really love. It's so nice to play a listening room, because the audience feels a certain way too.
Denison Witmer
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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
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Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
Lisa See
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What is it that you most fear hearing about your work?
Deborah Butterfield
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Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Yeah, sometimes it gets a little sappy for me, but I'm tired of hearing about dysfunctional families in sitcoms. That's been done to death, and that's probably what everybody expected from me. But that's not what I wanted to do.
Mike Judge
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You can't quite believe what you are hearing - and it's not necessarily something that you can listen to all the time because it's too intense - but it changes the way you go about making music.
Daughn Gibson
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The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.
Thomas Hobbes
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I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.
George Meade
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New York is great because it's such a cross-section of the world, and when you're used to people being shoulder-to-shoulder all the time - in the street, on the train - you become a people person. People are very open to hearing a lot of different perspectives, and they aren't as sensitive.
Erik Griffin
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Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.
Bella Bathurst
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley Baldwin
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I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.
Dalia Mogahed
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The best way is to proffer a new charge and allow for a full hearing of the case.
Anwar Ibrahim
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When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing.
Barbara Woodhouse
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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Norman Granz
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
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The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And things you know before you hear them — those are you, those are why you are in the world.
William Stafford