Hearing Quotes - Page 19

• I keep hearing in my head "you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah." I think there's something wrong with my headphones.

  Russell Brand

  Thinking, Headphones, Messiah

  BBC Radio 2 Show, June 30, 2007.

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• 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.

  William James

  Men, Roots, Differences

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.284, The Floating Press

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• I've been wearing hearing aids for a long time. The technology available now is simply unbelievable. When I compare the new digital products to what we had 30 years ago, it's an amazing difference.... There was a time when I couldn't hear what most people said to me, most of the time. But with the hearing aids, I understand just about everything ... it really is very impressive.

  Arnold Palmer

  Technology, Years, Differences

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• Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

  Russell Baker

  Attitude, Speak English, Long

  Russell Baker (1990). “There's a country in my cellar”, William Morrow & Company

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• What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.

  Matthew Henry

  Meditation, Sowing

  Matthew Henry (1825). “The Life of the Rev. Philip Henry, A.M.: With Funeral Sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry”, p.406

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• On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.

  Harold Wilson

  Littles, Eras, September

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• Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

  Frederic Chopin

  Beautiful, Art, Giving Up

  "Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by His Pupils". Book by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, 1986.

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• Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.

  George Sand

  Prudent, Insult, Appearance

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• Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different: And diverse men differ not only in their judgment, on the senses of what is pleasant and unpleasant to the taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight, but also of what is conformable, or disagreeable to Reason, in the actions of the common life. Nay, the same man, in diverse times, differs from himself, and one time praiseth, that is, calleth Good, what another time he dispraiseth, and calleth Evil.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Sight, Names

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• And also to the alien, who is not of Thy people Israel, but comes from a distant land on account of Thy fame; for hearing of Thy great name and Thy strong hand, and Thine outstretched arm, he comes to this house to pray... do Thou listen in the heavens, the place where Thou dwellest, and perform all that the alien begs of Thee, so that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thine own people Israel, and to know that Thy name is proclaimed over this house that I have built.

  Solomon

  Strong, Land, Names

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• Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Laughter, Self, Tragedy

  "Inferior Religions" by Wyndham Lewis, 1917.

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• Whether it's that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you're not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh they are all pathways to what I think God must be.

  Jennifer Beals

  Daughter, Running, Thinking

  More Magazine Interview, December 2010.

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• I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Korea, Giving

  "Ann Coulter: Bill Clinton "was a very good rapist"". www.mediamatters.org. January 12, 2005.

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• Thus, in a crucial way, the Kansas hearings repeat the pattern set by the Scopes Trial, which has been repeated many times since, namely, evolutionists escaped critical scrutiny by not having to undergo cross-examination. In this case, they accomplished the feat by boycotting the hearings. I therefore await the day when the hearings are not voluntary but involve subpoenas that compel evolutionists to be deposed and interrogated at length on their views.

  William A. Dembski

  Kansas, Views, Trials

  "The Vise Strategy: Squeezing the Truth out of Darwinists" by William Dembski, uncommondescent.com. May 11, 2005.

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• People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.

  James Taylor

  People, Listening, Quality

  "James Taylor: Streaming businesses should pay artists half". Associated Press Interview, www.azcentral.com. June 19, 2015.

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• Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. Unfortunately, there's a style of acting going round, especially with the younger actors, where they talk without even moving their lip. Maybe it's because my hearing probably isn't what it was 40 years ago but I'm sitting there going "What did they say"?

  Clint Eastwood

  Moving, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• I have got this letter which actually goes out the day after I die. It has already been written. And it says that: "Yesterday I died". And then it says: "That's bad news for me, but it's not bad news for you, the shareholders of Berkshire". And then I go on and explain what is going to happen. I know that is one time when they will be really interested in hearing from me.

  Warren Buffett

  Yesterday, News, Goes On

  "Warren Buffett: 'My elephant gun is loaded'". Interview with Dominic Lawson, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 22, 2002.

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• Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write and communicate in a way that I hadn't experienced growing up.

  Jack Jason

  Growing Up, Writing, Challenges

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A lot of times, if you watch sign language interpreters, there can be some lag time issues. When that happens, I think you lose the hearing audience.

  Jack Jason

  Thinking, Issues, Watches

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The thing about the internet is we take everything too far. Once something becomes "popular" in our realm, it's everywhere, and I get sick of hearing about it quickly.

  Connor Franta

  Sick, Internet, Realms

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.

  Bell Hooks

  Voice, White, Racism

  "Killing Rage: Ending Racism". Book by Bell Hooks, September 15, 1995.

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• I am tired of the warmakers making war with our children. I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to do the dirty work for mob bosses who are going to squeeze the life out of Iraq and not leave until every asset and every natural resource has been raped from the country. I am tired of seeing Iraqis burying their loved ones and hearing the reverberating screams of mothers all over our country who are being destroyed for the benefit of a very few.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Mother, Country, Children

  Personal Blog, January 15, 2007.

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• I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

  Murray Walker

  Doubt, Pits, Noise

  "Evening Standard: F1 Made Me Deaf, Says Walker". The Evening Standard, June 21, 2007.

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• The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.

  Pat Nixon

  Snakes, People

  1973 On Watergate. Letter to a friend, quoted in Julie Nixon Eisenhower Pat Nixon (1986).

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• Vibrations never lie. A person could be saying one thing and yet, thinking another. Get to the point where you pay closer attention to the vibrations you are receiving rather than the words you are hearing. Intuition is one of the most valuable mental tools you possess. Begin to consciously use it. Your rewards will be worth the effort.

  Bob Proctor

  Lying, Thinking, Effort

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 11, 2017

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