Heard Quotes

I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?'

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night.

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

I'd never heard anything about this at all.

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.

I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.

The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

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.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.