Heard Quotes

• I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

  

  Richard M. Nixon
  • Knows
  • Heard

• In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes of the film. There's a lot of Indigenous music that has not been heard widely and I love the idea of giving that music to the rest of the world.

  

  Warwick Thornton
  • World
  • Film
  • Listening

• I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Cool
  • Records
  • Heard

• The Olympics are great. For two weeks we become absolutely fascinated in these people we've never heard of before and will never think of again.

  

  Amy Argetsinger
  • People
  • Week
  • Olympics

• I'm not in "Bend and Snap." But, I will say that when I first heard they were making Legally Blonde into a musical, I thought, Well, of course, there's going to be a bend and snap number, because it's just, I think, one of the most natural moments in the movie to expand into a musical number.

  

  Katherine Shindle
  • Natural
  • Musical
  • Number

• I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.

  

  Cecil Castellucci
  • Trying
  • Smile
  • Muscles

• I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Fans
  • Musician
  • Underrated

• I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He sounded so good and it sounded so easy, so I bought me a guitar and an amplifier and said now I can't do nothing but play! Really, welding was my talent, I think, but I sort of swished it aside.

  

  Wes Montgomery
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Talent

• I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Real
  • Persons
  • Flight

• Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

  

  Norton Juster
  • Covered
  • Octopus
  • Bathtubs

• I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Albums

• I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Quality
  • Singing
  • Records

• No communication takes place until the other person feels heard

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Feels
  • Persons
  • Communication

• Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.

  

  David McCord
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Read

• "I’M NOT READY FOR THAT." How many times have you heard that? How many times have you said that? It’s a very natural reaction to things that are daunting and often make us feel insecure. It’s also a very common excuse to bow out of things we need to step into.

  

  Carl Lentz
  • Said
  • Excuse
  • Not Ready

• I'm Elijah. You've heard of me?

  

  Elijah
  • Heard
  • Elijah

• I don't think you've ever heard anything bad about me, and I'd like to keep it that way.

  

  Slim Whitman
  • Anything
  • Heard
  • About

• My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Children
  • Father
  • Stories

• I just encourage everyone to make real music and it will fuel the engine and the machine. Just make it real and put your heart into it. Don't make it because you heard someone on the radio.

  

  Warryn Campbell
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Radio

• We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns.

  

  George Meany
  • People
  • Heard
  • Had

• I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.

  

  Tim Gane
  • Week
  • Records
  • Buying

• She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Water
  • Pool
  • Bottom

• Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.

  

  Thomas R. Marshall
  • Brother
  • Sea
  • President

• Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Voice
  • Complaining
  • Slumber

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