Top 100 Want To Hear Quotes
#1. If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota)
Johannes Gouws
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo clearly and engagingly tells us Americans a truth that we might not want to hear but should.
Dal LaMagna
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Name ten songs you want to hear again before you die, get all of your friends together and scream them. Because right now all you have is time, but someday that time will run out. That's the only thing you can be absolutely certain about.
Paul Baribeau
#12. You want me to ask you why you left? Why you chose the open sea over my bed? A criminal's brand over my touch? I didn't ask you, Alucard, because I don't want to hear them [your excuses]
V.E Schwab
#13. You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
Cornel West
#14. If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team in Washington. Believe me, your ideas count. An individual can make a difference.
George H. W. Bush
#15. FORTITUDE IS THE CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'
Erich Fromm
#16. The last thing they want to hear is that math is really about raw creativity and aesthetic sensitivity. Many
Paul Lockhart
#17. My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
Patricia Cornwell
#18. Oh, come on, Arthur." "I don't want to hear it, Andy." "Jesus Christ" "He doesn't want to hear it, either.
Markus Zusak
#19. Sometimes the answers you need to hear aren't the answers you want to hear.
Eric Samuel Timm
#20. Anthropologist Mary Douglas (1991) examines the very thin line separating a joke from an insult: a joke expresses something a community is ready to hear; an insult expresses something it doesn't want to consider.
Henry Jenkins
#21. For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.
Jenny Eclair
#22. Get what?" she asked, but she didn't want to hear. "That every time we kiss, it's good-bye.
Kristin Hannah
#23. Even your religious friends do not want to hear about God during a medical diagnosis.
Doug Stanhope
#24. When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.
Richard Lewis
#25. I meditate each day. Going within alleviates tension and stress, and allows me to hear what the Universe wants me to know.
Louise Hay
#26. The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.
Charles De Lint
#27. the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear" (2 Timothy 4:3).
Vincent Cheung
#28. Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.
Seth Godin
#29. As any parent can tell you, it's better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They're probably doing something they don't want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they'll hide the evidence. I
Elizabeth Bear
#30. Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.
Mark Hart
#31. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
Barbara Kingsolver
#32. When I hear homestyle, I always think of some guy in his underwear standing next to a microwave. You want me to nuke a hot dog for ya? I got some old Chinese in the fridge, but I think it's my roommate's.
Jim Gaffigan
#33. This time his voice comes from the left and I hear his footfall moving around my body as I obey. Suddenly I am all limbs, stretching out to please him. I am absurdly vulnerable and beyond aroused. I want him now.
Felicity Brandon
#34. I don't want to fight for the people, I don't want to fight against the people, I don't want to hear of the people. I want to be left alone - to live.
Ayn Rand
#35. Don't ever say that, Fennrys," she said. "I don't ever want to hear you say that you don't deserve or you aren't worthy. You do. You are.
Lesley Livingston
#36. People.. especially people in positions of power.. have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently.
David Suzuki
#37. I'm trying to do of a certain attitude in life. I'm against separatism. I'm for everyone to gather. I'm for everyone lunatic to hang out together. I want to hear somebody else's bad night, not just mine.
John Waters
#38. All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.
Shameik Moore
#39. Well, I found I am my own best company. I don't annoy myself and I always have something important I want to hear myself say.
Ashlan Thomas
#40. I did not want to hear the pain of my male partner because hearing it required that I surrender my investment in the patriarchal ideal of the male as protector of the wounded. If he was wounded, then how could he protect me? As
Bell Hooks
#41. You know what I know? I know that whenever someone tells you they are doing 'what's best for you', you're screwed. Those are not words you want to hear. It's right up there with 'it's not you it's me'.
Caroline Hanson
#42. You want to have a song that people will listen to and go, 'Oh, yeah! That reminds me of something in my life,' or, 'something I'm currently going through,' or maybe something happens later and you hear the song and go, 'Wow! That really was telling a story that I can relate to now.' That's my hope.
Pegi Young
#43. The idea that I hear from the right wing in the last few decades, is that any sort of sacrifice is an affront to my liberty as an American to be a pig the way I want to.
Bill Maher
#44. The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.
Dhani Harrison
#45. Eragon! I never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done
or would do
something means that you should too. It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind. Am I clear?
Christopher Paolini
#46. I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#47. I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.
Jason Isbell
#48. Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.
Brian May
#49. Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
Kate Bosworth
#50. I received Christ into my heart and my life began to change. But it was a gradual change. And I didn't see any flashing bulbs. I didn't hear any thunder. There was no great emotional experience. It was just saying: Yes, Lord Jesus, I want you to be the lord of my life.
Billy Graham
#51. Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
Bill Cosby
#52. As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.
Vito Fossella
#54. These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.
Lester Bowie
#55. It doesn't matter what people want to hear. It doesn't matter if people like you. It doesn't matter if the whole world thinks you're crazy. It doesn't matter whose heart you break. What matters is the truth.
Sara Gran
#56. Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's no way to refuse.
Suzanne Collins
#57. It's easy to think people have no business giving you advice when it isn't the advice you want to hear.
Katie Kacvinsky
#58. There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.
Zinedine Zidane
#59. I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.
Francesca Lia Block
#60. If you want customers to hear about you, make something worth talking about.
Seth Godin
#61. I want that little blonde bitch in the lobby to hear me screaming your name.
Aaron B. Powell
#62. I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.
Tom Shadyac
#63. You want to hear that!??!?
- I am going to give you... what you want....
Deyth Banger
#64. This is not what you want to hear, but to me, it doesn't seem there was a time before I loved you. And though I try to keep my distance from you ... even now you keep giving me reasons to love you more.
Cayla Kluver
#65. I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.
Alison Krauss
#66. Look at me, Sylvia. Because I'm not going to say this again. I told you once that I'm a man who goes after what he wants, and I want you in my bed. I want to feel you naked and hot beneath me. I want to hear you cry out when you come, and I want to know that I am the man who took you there.
Anonymous
#67. An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#68. I'm none too big on giving advice,'
Aunt Al said. 'Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else.
Jeannette Walls
#69. One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.
Haruki Murakami
#70. I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people - who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves - would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations, or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals.
Julia Serano
#71. The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.
Jim Brown
#72. I was too stubborn to really take on what she was saying. But we're all guilty sometimes of only listening to what we want to hear.
Lesley Pearse
#73. When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
Jonathan Davis
#74. When you want to do something that isn't the 'norm' you will be made to feel like you have a problem and if you hear it often enough then you start to believe it too.
Radhika Vaz
#75. No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.
Gareth Gates
#76. I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don't want to hear about your troubles.
Charles Bukowski
#77. And all I want to hear are the sweetest words in the world, when he says: Bed, Wife.
Philippa Gregory
#78. No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
Aaron Brown
#79. I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom or the words that might inspire hope and courage in the face of fear. My weapons are peaceful, for it is only by peace that peace can be attained. The song of freedom must prevail.
Paul Robeson
#80. Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear
William Westney
#81. I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.
Ben Elliot
#82. Doesn't everyone want to feel in the night
the beloved body, compass, polestar,
to hear the quiet breathing that says
I am alive, that means also
you are alive, because you hear me,
you are here with me
Louise Gluck
#83. Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words - they work 'blue.' If you don't want to hear a joke that's blue, you shouldn't go to a comedy club where a comedian who makes blue jokes is performing.
Gilbert Gottfried
#84. Listen to a name so private it can burn hear it said aloud and learn and learn History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison of all they want to keep Now
Leonard Cohen
#85. I think maybe it's the things we don't want to talk about that are the things people most want to hear.
Julie Murphy
#86. I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.
Heather King
#87. Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.
Harry Belafonte
#88. If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it.
Thomas Of Villanova
#89. People just want to hear some common sense ... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
Carol Moseley Braun
#90. I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
Natalia Kills
#91. At the risk of sounding like that old guy in 'Gran Torino' telling those 'young punks' to 'get off my lawn,' it's gotten to the point that whenever I hear somebody talking about Twitter or twittering or tweeting, it just makes my little tummy want to hurl.
John Ridley
#92. So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it.
Charlaine Harris
#93. Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
Damon Wayans Jr.
#94. I want to get away from it all. Move to the sticks. Montana. Hundreds of miles from civilization. Get a cabin in the snow. Curl up with some cute girl. Say stuff to her like, Scream all you want, sugar. Ain't nobody gonna hear you!
David Spade
#95. Ooh. Maybe he'll fuck you in Spanish. Can you call me while it's happening? God, I want to hear that.
Tina Reber
#96. Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.
Chrissy Teigen
#97. Tawny," I barked. My voice held the authority of a drill sergeant. She jumped. "I am NOT making out with you until the end of time. You want to do this, then you've got to work for it. Now, TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES."
"Oh," said Hugh. "I've waited ten years to hear you say that to another woman.
Richelle Mead
#98. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't hear it.
David Levithan
#99. No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.
Kate Capshaw
#100. Your teacher didn't lie to you. A centaur never lies. He merely edited his information, on orders from the King, so as not to force on the impressionable minds of children things their parents did not want them to hear. Education has ever been thus.
Piers Anthony
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