Hearing Quotes

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything. (Aristotle)
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. View quote
Thornton Wilder
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. View quote
George Orwell
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything. View quote
William Hazlitt
If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. View quote
George Eliot
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? View quote
George Orwell
I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor. View quote
Christopher Columbus
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. View quote
Sigmund Freud
We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what it really was, what it meant. View quote
Colum McCann
I love hearing people laugh. (James Gandolfini)
I never get tired of hearing compliments. View quote
John Lithgow
You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft. View quote
Leslie Nielsen
And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs. View quote
Beau Bridges
Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write. View quote
Dennis Brown
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer. View quote
Fred Savage
There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations. View quote
Henry Reed
People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality. View quote
Henry Reed
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. View quote
Norman Granz
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. View quote
Ray Davies
Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on. (Stephen Hopkins)
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. View quote
Vance Havner
Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God. View quote
William Ames
If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter. View quote
William James