Hearing Quotes
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One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a bitter attack on the way poets were neglected. Yet there were about two thousand people present, and he was being paid five hundred dollars for delivering this attack.
Stephen Spender
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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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If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.
Tom Lehrer
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Make passionate my sense of hearing.
William Shakespeare
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
Heraclitus
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I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
Mike Figgis
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So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.
Moss Hart
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I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!
Joseph Mawle
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You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
George Clooney
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When you listen to stereo on your home system, your both ears hear both speakers. Turn on the left speaker sometime and notice you're hearing it also in your right ear.
Elwood G. Norris
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I'm very concerned about not hearing something by now.
Bob Lewis
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Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.
Simon Sinek
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I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear.
Wallace M. Greene
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Here is the principle - adapt your measures to the necessity of the people to whom you minister. You are to take the Gospel to them in such modes and circumstances as will gain for it from them a hearing.
Catherine Booth
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You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.
Muhammad Ali
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I remember hearing people like Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, and Elvis. My parents were big fans of them, and they were the early seeds. My brother was more into Slipknot, and I still listen to them, too, but it wasn't until I listened to Paolo Nutini that it really clicked.
Lewis Capaldi
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Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.
David Sills
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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.
Catherine Crier
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When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
Helen Keller
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When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.
Eyvind Kang
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You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends and family, and we make them scream and yell at us so we can hear! But I think it's better to take responsibility and wear hearing aids!
Norm Crosby
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Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?
Sherman Alexie
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Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.
Evelyn Glennie