Don't Believe What You Hear Quotes

#1. Don't believe what you hear about those penguins. A species of lazy waddlers. Their extinction is immanent.

Benson Bruno

#2. Don't believe what you hear, don't believe what you see.
If you just close your eyes.
You can feel the enemy.

U2

#3. If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota)

Johannes Gouws

#4. You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have to. When it came to my brother, it was written across her face in 112-point Tupac Gothic.

Junot Diaz

#5. Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.

Lyle Lovett

#6. You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.

Cesare Pavese

#7. Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real space, spill into air, once you could hear it, once there was a typewriter, once there was a body of a typist, it was getting rid of the confines of the page.

Vito Acconci

#8. I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.

Truman Capote

#9. He shook his head slowly from side to side, as though it were very heavy. I could almost hear the contents sloshing.

Diana Gabaldon

#10. Don't let your ears hear what your eyes didn't see, and don't let your mouth say what your heart doesn't feel

Anonymous

#11. It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work on a show. I don't even know that I'm tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I'm just so excited.

Michael Kors

#12. I am purely evil;
Hear the thrum
of my evil engine;
Evilly I come.
The stars are thick as flowers
In the meadows of July;
A fine night for murder
Winging through the sky.

Ethel Mannin

#13. And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I've served ye well.

Diana Gabaldon

#14. A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it ... its appeal is permanent.

Loretta Young

#15. Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian's mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds.

Melina Marchetta

#16. I spent my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#18. My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.

Junior Kimbrough

#19. My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?'

James Callis

#20. What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!

David Abram

#21. Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Taylor Swift

#22. At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,
You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.
And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,
And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

Rudyard Kipling

#23. I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.

Kiefer Sutherland

#24. What do you see when you look and what do you hear when you read?

Albert Clayton Gaulden

#25. Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.

T. Colin Campbell

#26. I promise you in [Jesus] name that if you pray with a sincere desire to hear your Heavenly Father's voice in the messages of this conference, you will discover that He has spoken to you to help you, to strengthen you, and to lead you home into His presence.

Robert D. Hales

#27. When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy; as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.

Mark Nepo

#28. My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.

Elizabeth Hernandez

#29. Yes, well, irony is no protection when you can feel the breeze from his scythe on your skin and hear the rustle of his wings.

Michael Gruber

#30. I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.

Augustus De Morgan

#31. Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H

Donald Altman

#32. Keep in mind what choices you make because one day your going to have to face you loved ones and hear what they have to say.

Keydia Marie

#33. I think comedy is a good way to deal with anything. I hear about people in the hospital who are ill, and they use humor to help them through it. I think it's a great remedy for many things.

Brian Regan

#34. Colin mustered a perfunctory leer, but his mind was obviously elsewhere. 'Do you know ... ' he began.
I knew many things, but I didn't think he needed to hear the entirety of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales right at just this moment.

Lauren Willig

#35. The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.

Pope Paul VI

#36. I've never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their eyes and ears.

Douglas Adams

#37. I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight.

Chris Stapleton

#38. Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral.

Tim O'Brien

#39. I hope to be judged as good a man as my father. Before I hear those words "well done" from my Heavenly Father, I hope to first hear them from my mortal father.

Boyd K. Packer

#40. I go back and forth as to whether I think Nancy Pelosi's really this dumb or not. Although, every time I hear her speak I get closer and closer to concluding that she is this dumb.

Rush Limbaugh

#41. Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

#42. When you hear music so beautiful it gives you chills, those are angel wings brushing against you.

Tiffany Reisz

#43. Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.

David Platt

#44. I'm not strong enough for this," he whispered in her ear - like he didn't want anyone to hear that coming out of his mouth. Ever. Running her hands up his powerful back, she held him just as hard. "But I am.

J.R. Ward

#45. Amy said, "So, you're making a flamethrower?"
"Amy, we gotta be prepared. We don't know what we'll find in that place, but for all we know it could be the Devil himself."
"David, what possible good is that thing gonna do?"
"Oh, no, you didn't hear me. I said it's a flamethrower." Girls.

David Wong

#46. It's an honor when someone writes for you. That means they can hear your voice in their head.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#47. I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.

Anne Tyler

#48. So, say, when they're out in their little boats and they hear voices in the night, they forget whatever destination they had in mind and they go tearing straight towards the sound, screaming their heads off.

Simon Spurrier

#49. True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

Lester B. Pearson

#50. I hear myself saying these words: What this movement is about is options. I say it to friends who are frustrated, or housebound, or guilty, or child-laden, and what I'm really thinking is, If you really got it together, the option you would choose is mine.

Nora Ephron

#51. Was on the point of crying at her, 'Don't you hear them?' The dusk was repeating them in a persistent whisper all around us, in a whisper that seemed to swell menacingly like the

Joseph Conrad

#52. Flowers speak to us if we listen. Appreciating the blossom in hand or pausing in the garden to admire the beauty quiets our outer selves till we hear something new, something we did not hear before - the still, small voice of Nature herself.

Jean Hersey

#53. Think I'll just buff up the silver,' he announced, loud enough for her to hear and do something about him if she wanted.

John Le Carre

#54. I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren't actors who have a rough time, too, and I don't know if the ratio is any different.

Johnny Crawford

#55. It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer-lasting pain than the brief pain of facing it head on.

Richard Rohr

#56. Lilac won't talk to me again. There's a tremor. Lilac won't kiss me again. I won't hear her laugh. My lungs constrict. Why am I doing this to myself ?

Amie Kaufman

#57. I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy that part.

Marco Beltrami

#58. At night the Garden was a place of shadows and moonlight, where you could more clearly hear all the illusions that went into making it what it was.

Dot Hutchison

#59. Enjoy the movie. I hear the guy gets the girl" I said, my tone bold and flirtatious.
"Which guy?" She laughed, playing along. I could hear her smile through the phone. It felt good to make her smile. Really good.
I paused before answering, "The one who deserves her.

Melissa Brown

#60. Out of her pocket and answers it. I didn't hear it ring. "Mr. Grey," she says. Leila and I turn to look at her. Prescott closes her eyes as if in pain.

E.L. James

#61. It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

Ida Tarbell

#62. May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.

Herculine Barbin

#63. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo clearly and engagingly tells us Americans a truth that we might not want to hear but should.

Dal LaMagna

#64. No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical point: When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, but there is no one to hear it, does it - philosophically speaking - make a noise?

Terry Pratchett

#65. It was a silence so deep, so still, that a man could finally hear the beating of his own heart, the gentle whispers of the soul.

Kamran Pasha

#66. Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.

George Alex Stevens

#67. Do you understand what I'm saying?
Pardon? I just wanna hear you talking.

Toba Beta

#68. Don't tell Mummy,' he said, giving me a slight shake. 'This is our secret, Antoinette, do you hear me?

Toni Maguire

#69. Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.

Chris Squire

#70. To understand the Scripture is not simply to get information about God. If attended to with trust and faith, the Bible is the way to actually hear God speaking and also to meet God himself.

Timothy J. Keller

#71. I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.

Brian Austin Green

#72. There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

Mavis Staples

#73. Winners do not whine, they roar. Let me hear you roar!

Ken Polson

#74. If you can hear the birds singing, you're in the right place

Benny Bellamacina

#75. Why did some people hear the voice, loud and clear, while others just floated from thing to thing, from person to person, never completely fitting in, never entirely at home.

Rachael Herron

#76. How do you know that? (Stryker)
I know everything. I feel every heartbeat in the universe. Hear every scream for mercy and feel every tear of pain. (Jared)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#77. We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

William Faulkner

#78. I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.

Edwidge Danticat

#79. If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

Jazmine Sullivan

#80. You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books? I say 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?

Kurt Vonnegut

#81. On Easter, the Pope asked for peace in the Middle East. There are two groups the Pope has to contend with - Jewish people and Muslims. They couldn't wait to hear his suggestions.

Conan O'Brien

#82. Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

Charles Spurgeon

#83. Leaning forward in the chair, Harley squeezed out a controlled fart, so no one could hear it. This damn reception area was like a echo chamber. If he weren't careful, it could reverberate around the hall like a shotgun blast.

Alan Kinross

#84. There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

William Cowper

#85. have mercy on me and hear

Anonymous

#86. It was futile to whisper because Yasha could hear a tick burp at fifty yards.

Lisa Shearin

#87. I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if it's about me. I just don't need to hear extra garbage.

Laura Vandervoort

#88. When you hear the things that people have gone through and realize you've gone through the same, it provides an amazing amount of relief. It gives us hope. And I think that's what we're supposed to get from each other. The

Marc Maron

#89. You should really think about buying another new tractor. I hear the current models have air conditioning and Wi-Fi."
"What the fuck do we need Wi-Fi for out in the field?"
"Don't know. Cows might be into the beefcake of the month sites. You never know about them heifers

Mercy Celeste

#90. We have to hear again and again who God is for us and what God has done on our behalf. We must free each other from bondage through our confession and forgiveness.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#91. I hear you."
"You sing my soul.

A.L. Jackson

#92. I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.

Lucy Christopher

#93. Though it seems like time itself moves more slowly when you're in the presence of people who actually see and hear you. There's a certain weight to a moment that never comes when you feel invisible.

Merrill Markoe

#94. Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.

Harry Crosby

#95. Will fight for you until you can fight for yourself. You hear

Laura Kaye

#96. If you're sitting around worrying about bills all day, it's hard to hear the guidance that's coming from the inside.

Echo Bodine

#97. People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

Avigdor Lieberman

#98. I had hoped to hear everyone discussing how much they missed my altruistic qualities, my legendary skills as a fighter and as a lover." He leered. "Instead, you're making plans for tomorrow. Interesting how life goes on in spite of itself.

Maria V. Snyder

#99. Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.

Douglas Adams

#100. I'd be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullsh*t that I hear a day.

Big Sean