Heard Quotes - Page 35

• Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?
  Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.
  You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?

  Ouida

  Beautiful, Song, Prayer

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• Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band after working in an ice cream shop, you can't really learn much about a person based on what kind of music they happen to like. As a personality test, it doesn't work even half the time. However, there is at least one thing you can learn: The most wretched people in the word are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Country, Ice, People

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wise, Stars, Angel

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• Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Communication

  Frances Hesselbein (2013). “More Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.65, John Wiley & Sons

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• The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

  Carol Gilligan

  Voice, People, Said

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• Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.

  James Gleick

  Communication, Writing, Echoes

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• I have a need of silence and of stars.
  Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed.
  The silken sound of whirled infinity
  Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.

  William Alexander Percy

  Stars, Voice, Silence

  William Alexander Percy (1944). “The collected poems of William Alexander Percy”

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• My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home

  Smokey Robinson

  Mother, Home

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• This bowl has lived up to all the hype that I heard of it. Coaches...that have been here rave about the hospitality, rave about the venue and all the activities for the players. The people here have been marvelous. The bowl committee has bent over backwards to make sure that our stay is an excellent one. The players have something to do if they choose every day. You couldn't find a better place.

  Barry Alvarez

  Player, Hype, People

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• Grease is the word, is the word that you heard, It's got groove, its got feeling.

  Frankie Valli

  Feelings, Grease, Groove

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• Can you imagine a silence so desperate
  to be heard?

  Richard Jackson

  Silence, Imagine, Desperate

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• I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

  Holly Johnson

  Rocks, Musician, Sound

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• I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are part of the body of Christ, that if we let the Spirit move through us, we can become the hands of Christ on earth. Hands that heal, bless, unite, and love. I'd like to think God's hands are a bit like Grace's man hands—gentle but big, busy, and tough. God's hands are those of a creator—an artist who molded and shaped the universe out of a void, who hewed matter from nothingness.

  Cathleen Falsani

  Moving, Men, Thinking

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• I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Holiday, Singing, Desire

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• No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain, thrills — every emotion that any human ever had — and I'll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed.

  Richard Halliburton

  Pain, Stupid, Joy

  Letter to his parents from Paris, December 5, 1919.

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• I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

  Jane Haddam

  Hate, Book, Lasts

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• The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.

  Mabel Collins

  Men, Giving, Perception

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• I have been a fan of Jesse Terry since the first time I heard him. He's a humble - and humbling - talent.

  Tony Arata

  Humble, Fans, Firsts

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• History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her performance affected the life of a Bostonian who is now a member of the Newport Festivals Foundation Board of Directors.  Ward Mooney was so affected and emotionally involved in Janis’ performance at Newport, that when he heard the festival was going nonprofit, he knew wanted to become a part.  Janis was beautiful, gracious and respectful, and the power of her Newport performance continues to live on.

  George Wein

  Beautiful, Foundation, Directors

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• All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.

  Ira Berkow

  Stuff, Today, Chance

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• One of the main coaching points I've heard throughout my entire life is, 'How you respond to difficult situations defines your character,' and I think it's a good saying. I also think it applies to more than just the players.

  Chris Kluwe

  Character, Player, Thinking

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• I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Use, Speech, Sake

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• One of the best records I’ve ever heard.  Seriously, maybe top 20 all-time… I think if Rich Mullins had been given more time here, and if God had blessed his life with love and a wife, if he had the chance to see as much of the relational beauty as he saw of the natural beauty, I think he might have written some songs like the ones we find on BiRDS OF RELOCATiON.  And you know that’s about the highest praise I can give someone.  You will not find a combination of more beautiful poetry, raw honesty, and gorgeous melodies for a long time.

  Todd Agnew

  Beautiful, Song, Honesty

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• Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Influence, Human Life, Inventor

  Uses of the Past ch. 8 (1957)

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• The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt.

  David Amram

  Addresses, Firsts, Imagine

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