Heard Quotes
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A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.
Bill Frisell
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People had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.
Blake Mycoskie
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Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.
William Cowper
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I never heard the music he was playing in my life, and I've never seen the dances he was doing in my life. It was definitely nothing of this decade. It was definitely nothing that anybody of this era would know about.
Udonis Haslem
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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
Erich Maria Remarque
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Stop yelling. If everyone’s yelling, no one can be heard.
Jennifer Donnelly
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
Victor Hugo
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I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.
Sheldon Harnick
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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
Herbie Hancock
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Ric Flair was so big I heard about him. I've read his autobiography and all that. He's huge.
Bill Burr
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I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' Dangler basslines and said, "I don't like that, do something else." The same goes for the beat and the guitars. I think that's why we were able to make four albums together.
Paul Banks Interpol
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When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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You were seen, you were heard and you matter.
Oprah Winfrey
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C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard.
Heidi Hammel
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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
William Ames
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closed my eyes and listened. It was like music I'd heard all my life, even more than "This Lullaby." All those keystrokes, all those letters, so many words. I brushed my fingers over the beads and watched as her image rippled, like it was on water, breaking apart gently and shimmering before becoming whole again.
Sarah Dessen
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I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!
Alice Mattison
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Let the voice of the people be heard!
Albert Parsons
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In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'
Diane Ackerman
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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
William Shakespeare
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In that little practice room, no, I had no idea what would come of this little song. But it changed everything for us – it cemented the deal with Geffen – I could sense that everyone was much nicer to us after they heard that song!
Jack Hues Wang Chung
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Those sound like the three best answers I've ever heard on this show even though it's the first ever of this show!
Louis Tomlinson One Direction
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I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.
Emily Yoffe