Heard Quotes

I joined the PBA way before I should have because I heard a rumor they were going to limit the number of people who could get in.

We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn.

I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.

The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.

My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

I've sort of heard that "it" girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

I don't know who the actresses all are. I've never heard of Kate but I'm sure she'll do fine.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it.