Top 100 Be Heard Quotes
#1. You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
Stephen Sondheim
#2. A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.
Marisa Tomei
#3. If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.
Eddie Vedder
#4. Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.
Brad Falchuk
#5. The desire to be heard is as deeply seeded as the desire to be loved. For some people, it doesn't matter who's on the other end.
David Levithan
#6. In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.
John Grisham
#7. When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raised, holds his ear To some bright star in the supremest Round; Through which, besides the light that's seen There may be heard, from Heaven within, The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound.
Owen Feltham
#8. I have a really big mouth, I have a lot of opinions and I will be heard.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#9. I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.
Mark Twain
#10. At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus. It's the one time in my life where I don't have to shout to be heard.
Emun Elliott
#11. What shouldn't be heard by little ears shouldn't be said by big mouths!
Hermine B. Horman
#12. Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.
Wendy Kaminer
#13. My emotional state then was cramped and confined, like a room with tightly sealed windows and doors: although love's footsteps could be heard outside the room, I felt they were steps heading somewhere else--until one day when the steps came to a halt and the bell rang.
Yu Hua
#14. Mark Twain is a universe, and he is also a kind of American authority figure. He can say things to America that other people can't say, in a way that can truly be heard.
Val Kilmer
#15. It was the cry of grace, of agonizing, scandalous love. Those same words would be heard over and over from the mouths of martyrs and Christians throughout history. They
Shane Claiborne
#16. Only in Jesus are we able to pray, and with Him we also know that we shall be heard.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#17. When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.
Ashley Judd
#18. I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.
Ornette Coleman
#19. Because of the consequences of trying to be heard as a child, many adults are unable to take the risk of telling as adults. The fear of the consequences is almost debilitating. The abusers and controllers know that; they rely on it.
Darlene Ouimet
#20. The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows. But there are other voices to be heard. There are other songs to be sung.
Dan Simmons
#21. When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned him heart from him, and is angry ... he must arm himself with God's Word, promising to hear him.
Martin Luther
#22. My late mother was very clear to my sister and I that we were to be strong women; that we were to be effective; that we were to be heard.
Christine Quinn
#23. Whereas," I chipped in, leaning forward and raising my own voice enough to be heard over the clop and creak of the horses, "if harm comes to them because of some man, the satisfaction of blaming him will be adequate compensation?
Diana Gabaldon
#24. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.
Kenneth Edmonds
#25. Because what's the point of screaming ifor you'll never be heard
Tahereh Mafi
#26. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
Teresa Mummert
#27. I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.
N. T. Wright
#28. Oh, let's tell the world we're unheard. We're unsure.We're unstop, we're unstoppable. Oh let's tell the girls to be strong. To be sure. To be heard. We want to be heard.
Sara Quin
#29. Be someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares, and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.
Ralph Marston
#30. We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression. We all want to be heard, but let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention
Monica Lewinsky
#31. One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.
Ross Perot
#32. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them.
Paulo Coelho
#33. Besides, this was the gentle-going hour in which he hated Annawadi least. The pale sun lent the sewage lake a sparkling silver cast, and the parrots nesting at the far side of the lake could still be heard over the jets.
Katherine Boo
#34. Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.
Gabriel Faure
#35. The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.
Valerie June
#36. My mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.
Tehmina Durrani
#37. It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.
Eva Marie Saint
#38. Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.
Elizabeth Berkley
#39. Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
Anne Lamott
#40. The primary theological fact about prayer is this: We address a triune God, and our prayers can be heard only through the distinct work of every person in the Godhead.
Timothy J. Keller
#41. In the empty heart, void of self can be heard the echoing cry, "I am the Truth." Thus is man one with the eternal. Travelling, travel and traveller have become one.
Mahmud Shabistari
#42. The voices must be heard! Action must be taken! When? Right now!
Euginia Herlihy
#43. When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.
Mary Szybist
#44. We can't demand to be heard, if we're not also willing to listen
Greg Salter
#45. Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.
John Trudell
#46. ... So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky
John Dryden
#47. Of the love-making of Carol and Will Kennicott there is nothing to be told which may not be heard on every summer evening, on every shadowy block.
Sinclair Lewis
#48. From now on, no talking," Royce told him, having to shout to be heard over the wind as he hoisted the coil over his head.
Is that supposed to be a joke?
Michael J. Sullivan
#49. The flip-flap of Carmen's slippers could be heard out in the corridor, an aggressive sound, more eloquent than any words.
Jose Saramago
#50. Historically, there is a fight between the sound designer and the composer. You see them in the mixing room and they're always fighting because the composer wants the music to be heard and the sound designer wants the sound to be heard.
Alfonso Cuaron
#51. Technology has brought us to a point in which hundreds of millions if not billions of people have a voice, each voice can now be heard.
Jeff Pulver
#52. I know what it feels like to have my choices taken away. I pray no daughter of your kingdom will ever have to fight for her voice to be heard as I have had to do
Mary E. Pearson
#53. For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#54. I would say that we are living in an age that is increasingly spiritually blind and morally deaf. The man who does not shout is not going to be heard.
Richard Platt
#55. Tell me, in a world where wealth is power, and power is the only freedom, what would desperate men not do to be heard?" "Civil
Claire North
#56. Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.
Grace Slick
#57. Some believe to be spiritual, is to be always loving and shit ...
Being spiritual is taking no shit, by believing that your voice deserves to be heard if the deed is not satisfying your soul.
Nikki Rowe
#58. I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.
Ruth Brown
#59. You should be loud enough to be heard, but not overshadow the soloist or the other members of the rhythm section. Finding this volume balance is critical for a good feeling in the band. Creating bass lines
Sher Music
#60. Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.
Sarah Kay
#61. Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
Plutarch
#63. It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard and no one will ever hear me in her. No one will ever hear me again.
Tahereh Mafi
#64. Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard ... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.
Victoria Alexander
#65. Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
William Congreve
#66. Cracker Barrel's dining room bustled with activity. Joan had to raise her voice to be heard by Eve, who sat at the
Virginia Smith
#67. It is the literal, unvarnished truth, that the crack of the lash, and the shrieking of the slaves, can be heard from dark till bed time, on Epps' plantation, any day almost during the entire period of the cotton-picking season.
Solomon Northup
#68. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique ... something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.
Vaclav Havel
#69. Silence is not broken by speech, but by the anxiety to be heard.
Thomas Merton
#70. I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it.
TobyMac
#71. Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others.
Anasia Nicole Hixon
#72. The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different.
Scott Kahn
#74. I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end. And indeed he does not want my help; you do not know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of. ~Jekyll
Robert Louis Stevenson
#75. If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
M. Scott Peck
#76. I more the "Autism World" gets imploded with politics the less voices will be heard.
Paul Isaacs
#77. Sometimes we just need to be heard ... There are times in life when being heard leads to being healed.
Steve Maraboli
#78. Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao-Tzu
#79. It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#80. Psychoanalysis has at bottom no other goal than to create a space within oneself in which God's voice can be heard
Hermann Hesse
#81. I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.
G-Eazy
#82. Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
Filippo Brunelleschi
#84. As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.
Wanda Sykes
#85. Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#86. Mister whoever-the-fuck you are," said Shadow, just loud enough to be heard over the din of the engines, "there isn't enough money in the world.
Neil Gaiman
#87. Knowing that the voice wouldn't scream to be heard, they made sure that the world stayed loud with music and movies and 24/7 news and incessant online chatter. If they couldn't silence the whisper, they'd bombard people with other voices. Infinite choices.
Lauren Miller
#88. Was it possible that some men possessed so great a force of character that they could stamp themselves upon their words such that no matter where they were read, or when, or in what language, their own distinctive tones would always be heard?
Amitav Ghosh
#89. Before you pray, check to see whether you believe or doubt that you will be heard. If you are doubting or uncertain, or if you are merely trying a prayer to see what happens, your prayer won't be worth anything.
Martin Luther
#90. There are moments in a woman's life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and perfect, when a symphony can be heard in the tinkle of a doorbell.
Julia Quinn
#92. Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.
Robert Fripp
#93. I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night
Mari Evans
#94. Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.
George Parsons Lathrop
#95. Twitter is about the democratization of access to a platform that allows anyone in the world - who has a mobile phone and access to SMS - to have a voice and be heard.
Shailesh Rao
#96. If I really want to be heard, I have that command, but a lot of heavy women don't. When I see someone heavy working on television, I say, 'Oh, God, go girl. You do it.' You know, it shouldn't stop your life.
Liz Torres
#97. For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.
Jimmy Smits
#98. The more Christians focus on tangential issues, the less we will be heard on matters of true moral significance.
Philip Yancey
#99. Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.
Zac Posen
#100. 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
