I Heard Quotes

#1. I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

Bob Dylan

#2. Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun

George Harrison

#3. Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.

Ozzy Osbourne

#4. I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.

J. D. Souther

#5. Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I first heard them. I heard 'Hybrid Theory,' and I was floored at what I was listening to. It was angry yet melodic, it had hip-hop and it had - it was just different, good. Good songwriting.

Austin Carlile

#6. He made his play for you last night, shoulda known, you on the scene, you'd catch his eye. I heard. I lost it. Was pissed at him, took it out on you. Babe, I get pissed, I do it a lot, that'll happen.

Kristen Ashley

#7. I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.

Randall Munroe

#8. I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
women give themselves to him.
If I am dumb beside your body
while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips
it is because I hear a man climb stairs
and clear his throat outside our door.

Leonard Cohen

#9. The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

Diana Ross

#10. I heard this when I was in the Air Force: There's never enough time to do the job right, but always enough time to do it over.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#11. I heard you went to Ireland ... I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?
Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough.

Diana Gabaldon

#12. Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan I heard when I was 13. It was one of those things where it was like, "Hey, the world is much bigger than you imagined as a little kid."

Ezra Furman

#13. Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love's little bow Had laid time low.

John Dewey

#14. I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

Brian Posehn

#15. when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come

Anonymous

#16. I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.

Zack Snyder

#17. I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'

James Harden

#18. On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#19. I heard his hasty footsteps on the dock. I kept my head down. I heard the thump and felt it as he leaped down into the cockpit. I heard his grunt of consternation. He would have to find out, and find out quickly.

John D. MacDonald

#20. I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

Zhang Ziyi

#21. One morning I was bicycling to class when a large flock of Canada geese passed overhead. I couldn't see them, or much of anything else, but I heard the jazzy honking.

Karen Joy Fowler

#22. Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

Erma Bombeck

#23. I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.

Toby Jones

#24. Mal," I whispered into the night.
"What?"
"Thanks for finding me."
I wasn't sure if I was dreaming, but somewhere in the dark, I thought I heard him whisper, "Always.

Leigh Bardugo

#25. I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of my mind, every day a bit louder, I heard the seashell drone of some growing, coalescing force; I seemed to smell the bitter ozone aroma of lightings-to-come.

Stephen King

#26. I heard your whispered fantasies so clear Softly told in my ear
I opened my eyes you weren't there
So real my dream, I was so aware
But we'll meet again so certainly
In our whispered fantasy

Astrid Brown

#27. His blessed count'nance; here I could frequent, With worship, place by place where he voutsaf'd Presence Divine, and to my Sons relate; On this Mount he appeerd, under this Tree Stood visible, among these Pines his voice I heard, here with him at this Fountain talk'd: So

John Milton

#28. What really changed my life was watching the movie Juice and the opening scene - just hearing that record rotate. When I heard that I started getting serious about DJing and making beats and recording myself on the four-track.

Gonjasufi

#29. I heard a bustling rumor like a fray,
And the wind blows it from the Capitol.

William Shakespeare

#30. They did offer me a chance of being a V in the crowd, but it's not my scene. I think they just thought it would be fun for me to do that, but I don't know. I heard that Stan Lee appears in every movie of his.

David Lloyd

#31. All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

Xavier Dolan

#32. If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Amy Winehouse

#33. We can't go in there at night - there's all sorts of things in there - werewolves, I heard.

J.K. Rowling

#34. You wept," he said. "I heard you. Are you sick?"
"For love," Flora said.

Laline Paull

#35. I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president ... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'

Jon Stewart

#36. Winds shook me apart piecemeal, flung a bone here, a bone there. My eyes became snow, my hair turned to ice; I heard it chime against my shoulders like wind-blown glass. If I spoke, words would fall from me like snow, pour out of me like black wind.

Patricia A. McKillip

#37. I felt his forehead against mine, another swipe of his thumb to wipe the wetness away and I heard him whisper, Baby, I can't keep up.

Kristen Ashley

#38. 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.

Isaac Watts

#39. I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you.

Avijeet Das

#40. And though there were no children playing, no doves, no blue-shadowed roof tiles, I felt that the town was alive. And that if I heard only silence, it was because I was not accustomed to silence - maybe because my head was still filled with sounds and voices.

Juan Rulfo

#41. I heard my name once more, and now it seemed louder and closer. Turning to the sound, I willed my eyes to open. When had my eyes closed again? I was like a newborn kitten or something. Daimons across the nation shuddered in fear. Gods, I was lame.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#42. I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'

Jake Gyllenhaal

#43. I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.

Sara Paxton

#44. You're angry with me." I heard him sigh.

"I'm not angry. I don't get angry."

"Then you do a really good impression of angry.

Penny Reid

#45. They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.

Eddie Campbell

#46. The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation.

Henry David Thoreau

#47. When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.

Pete Wentz

#48. Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.

Viktor E. Frankl

#49. I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

Charlie Parker

#50. I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams ... It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.

Marilyn Manson

#51. One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer, ... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better

Isaac Asimov

#52. Okay, I said. But remember, you can't fix
everything in the world for everybody.
"However," said Ricky, "you can't do
anything at all unless you begin. Haven't
I heard you say that once or twice, or
maybe a hundred times?

Mary Oliver

#53. Message
I heard a cry in the night,
A thousand miles it came,
Sharp as a flash of light,
My name, my name!
It was your voice I heard,
You waked and loved me so
I send you back this word,
I know, I know!

Sara Teasdale

#54. Digital might capture the dynamics of what I heard before it went to tape a bit more accurately, but on the other hand, when we'd switch from listening to the digital version to the analog, the change was so profound - the music would suddenly go three-dimensional, and it felt much more engaging.

Kevin Shields

#55. The post office is raising the price of stamps again. I heard that and said to myself, 'If only there was an inexpensive electronic way of communicating.'

David Letterman

#56. I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#57. I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

Christopher Parker

#58. I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

Elizabeth Scott

#59. As I walked away, I heard Kale tell Fin to stop staring at my ass or he was going to punish him. I couldn't help but smile.

Jus Accardo

#60. Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

George Harrison

#61. I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.

James L. Brooks

#62. I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive government!"
"What form of government is that?" said Ponder Stibbons.
"A tautology," said the Dean, from above.

Terry Pratchett

#63. When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.

Oscar Isaac

#64. Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

Gabriela Sabatini

#65. I went to stand-up when my rock n' roll dreams weren't coming true. I knew it wasn't going to happen when I was in a New Wave band in 1992 - at the height of grunge. Then I heard No Doubt's 'Spiderwebs' and I said, 'Well, we're done.' They did - and succeeded at - what we were trying to do.

Greg Behrendt

#66. You can find the molasses flood on the Internet, it's there, I checked. Most of it is there, anyway, but that's not where I heard it." "Where, then?" She

Paul Tremblay

#67. You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.

Andy Partridge

#68. Hearing it, I wonder how I could have ever thought that the birdcall I heard earlier sounded anything like the Officer's whistle.

Ally Condie

#69. Yes, exactly. I heard he's a sort of savage - lives in a hut on the school grounds and every now and then he gets drunk, tries to do magic, and ends up setting fire to his bed." "I think he's brilliant," said Harry coldly.

J.K. Rowling

#70. The best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.

Alben W. Barkley

#71. There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

Dan Brown

#72. Would that detective be Arthur Smith? Mother asked. I heard the permafrost under her words.

Charlaine Harris

#73. This isn't over, Sylvia. I'll leave you now, but I'm watching. I will not let that bastard hurt you." I said this just as I reached the door. As she shut the door I heard a strangled whisper, "No, you're perfectly capable of doing that on your own.

N.M. Facile

#74. Thus spoke the devil to me once: "God too has his hell: it is his love of man." ... And most recently I heard him speak this word: "God is dead: God died of his pity for man." - On the Pitying

Friedrich Nietzsche

#75. Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.

Jill Scott

#76. Have you made any other friends since we've been here?"
I gave him the death stare. "Yes, actually."
"Who? I want a name."
"Jamie Roth."
"The Ebola kid? I heard he's a little unstable."
"That was one incident.

Michelle Hodkin

#77. Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.

Audrey Meadows

#78. Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.

Joanna Southcott

#79. I heard that "discretion is the better part of valor" from someone. Dunno exactly what that means but if it means not gettin' my fool haed blowed off then I'm all for it. -- Merle Johnson (Chicago Chase)

R.L. Kiser

#80. I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.

Gwendoline Christie

#81. It was amazing how instantaneously the choking fear vanished, amazing how suddenly the feeling of security washed over me - even before I was off the street - as soon as I heard his voice.

Stephenie Meyer

#82. How're we gonna bring the big hag round?" said Big Yan.
"I heard where ye has to put someone's heid between their legs," said Rob doubtfully.
Daft Wullie sighed and drew his sword. "Sounds a wee bit drastic tae me," he said, "but if someone will help me hold her steady-

Terry Pratchett

#83. I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.

Ted Nugent

#84. Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and people like that. Later, I heard James Brown, Otis Redding, The Drifters, The Four Aces, The Ink Spots.

Percy Sledge

#85. I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.

Lance Armstrong

#86. I heard raindrops in the night
Pattering upon my eaves,
Like a pleasing lullaby
Easing me back to sleep,
Which I thought was odd a bit,
For I awoke because of it.

Pepper Blair

#87. I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous genius and mental activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans - of their subsequent degenerating - of the decline of that mighty empire, of chivalry, Christianity, and kings.

Mary Shelley

#88. If I had a dollar for every time I heard the age excuse; that would probably be my shortcut to wealth.

James Jean-Pierre

#89. The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

Bill Wyman

#90. It was the moment I heard your laughter. The moment I heard us laughing, two cascades in the middle of a desert, careless and uninhibited.

Malak El Halabi

#91. One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c'mon now honey.

Miriam Toews

#92. I heard someone else in the hallway with her speaking, but there voice was so low I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman.

Cynthia Tart

#93. The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep." I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that's what I want to do with my life. That's the sound I want to try to make.

Booker T. Jones

#94. The face of all the world is changed, I think,
Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul
Move still, oh, still, beside me ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#95. Help me out," I pleaded. "You've left me alone to deal with this situation, and now we're being dealt the consequences."
I swore I heard Tom growl. I actually pulled the phone from my ear to stare at it to make sure it hadn't turned into a tiny lion.

Laura Kreitzer

#96. The lie came out so easily it frightened me. I used to feel sick to my stomach when I heard Mother tell a lie. How can you do it? How do you live with yourself? I used to wonder. But here I was, lying to Miss Paulsen and smiling while doing it.

Ruta Sepetys

#97. Just girt me for the onset with Eternity,
When breath blew back,
And on the other side
I heard recede the disappointed tide!

Emily Dickinson

#98. My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before 1915: 'not so nice.' That's all I heard.

Amy Bloom

#99. His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. "I thought I heard something."
"Yeah, well, guess what? I'm a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!

Becca Fitzpatrick

#100. It is really one of the things in it that I heard yesterday in his testimony that I thought was disturbing was this what did he call it? a massive persuasion campaign. That sounded a little bit like Goebbels or Gore-bels.

Glenn Beck