I Quotes
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“I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.”
“I heard a rumor that I had...left the earth”
“I heard a rumor that your mom and dad ran away from home.”
“I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.”
“I heard a singer begin a tune i hadn't heard before, a song of heartbreak. Of a girl who walked the earth by starlight. Who's aspect was mortal but with beauty divine. her cruelty had pierced his heart.”
“I heard a statistic, and this one blew my mind, that 1 out of every 4 men in the church are involved in pornography. And yet, when was the last time you heard a pastor talk about pornography? ... Talk to people in law enforcement, and they will tell you that the great majority of sexual assaults were perpetrated by people that were looking at pornography and they wanted to make a reality what they were seeing in the pornography.”
“I heard a storm pass, our bodies froze
And he whispered in that darkness
'I love you'
I touched the fresh scar on my chest,
Replied,
'me too”
Source: Songs of the Rooks
“I heard a story about a woman who grew up in Texas. When she was having trouble in her life, she would visit her grandmother, who lived nearby and always had a kind word and some wisdom to pass on. One day she was complaining to her grandmother about some situation and her grandmother just turned to her, smiled sadly, and said, "Sometimes, darlin', you've just got to rise above yourself in this life." I've remembered that wise advice many times as I've faced trouble in my life.”
“I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.”
Source: The Psychopath Test
“I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published, replied, "Classic books." One of the students asked her, "You mean like Kafka?" Apparently she said, "Oh, I don't think I would publish Kafka."”
“I heard a thousand blended notes
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.”
Source: Lyrical Ballads
“I heard a voice that told me I'm essential. How all my fears are limiting my potential. Said it's time to step into the light and use every bit of power i have inside.”
“I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!”
“I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.”
Source: The Star in My Heart: Experiencing Sophia, Inner Wisdom
“I heard about a pastor in a church of 5,000 people who employed two seminary students whose main responsibility was to get four new people baptized each week. When asked, "What happens if they can't meet the quota?", his response was, "Then I'll find two students who can". This man wasn't even remotely interested in true gospel preaching. He was results-driven.”
“I heard about Bhagavad Gita very early in my childhood, from the age of five onwards. It was one of the earliest things I started to read when I started to read. And it was very much a part of my consciousness. In the beginning, I saw the "Bhagavad Gita" as a text that was very classical, much like the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" - a mythical saga that showed the eternal conflict between good and evil. But much later, as I grew up, I realized that it was much more than that.”
“I heard about crack on the news and I was like, "Oh, that's what the niggas must be doing." And when I kept coming outside, I was doing my own little jostlin' to get my money.”
“I heard about the Dalai Lama, you know and I thought to myself, why not me?”
“I heard again and again that my and Archer’s story made people want to be better, to reach out to those no one else saw, to be friends to the friendless, to look at others more closely, and recognize pain when they came across it, and then to do something about it if they were able.”
“I heard Amos yell, “For Brooklyn!” It was an odd battle cry.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”
Source: Ham On Rye
“I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.”
Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake
“I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!"”
Source: Poems of the Intellect and the Affections
“I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or in the field, at the theatre, the coffee-house, or at home, he had never overheard Americans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of purpose ... can ... be found nowhere else, except... in an ant's nest.”
“I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'”
“I heard another disembodied voice: you're going to release a daemon”
Source: Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
“I heard Bellona was where it was at. It must be, now. I’m here.”
Source: Dhalgren
“I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.”
“I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.”
“I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner”
“I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'”
“I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.”
“I heard Dr. King speaking on the radio, and it seemed like he was saying, "John Robert Lewis, you too can make a contribution. You can get involved!"”
“I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.”
“I heard exactly the same thing, a long time ago to be sure, from a doctor,' the elder remarked. 'He was then an old man, and unquestionably intelligent. He spoke just as frankly as you, humorously, but with a sorrowful humor. "I love mankind," he said, "but I am amazed at myself: the more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular, that is, individually, as separate persons. In my dreams," he said, "I often went so far as to think passionately of serving mankind, and, it may be, would really have gone to the cross for people if it were somehow suddenly necessary, and yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone even for two days; this I know from experience. As soon as someone is there, close to me, his personality oppresses my self-esteem and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I can begin to hate even the best of men: one because he takes too long eating his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps blowing his nose. I become the enemy of people the moment they touch me," he said. "On the other hand, it has always happened that the more I hate people individually, the more ardent becomes my love for humanity as a whole."''But what is to be done, then?”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“I heard friends and strangers saying, "You don't look Arab - what are you supposed to be?" It really is a tired old problem for children of immigrants and kids of mixed race, constantly trying to explain yourself. Eventually, you give up and say, "Okay, what do you think I am?" When you're in the midst of it, you come to understand that "race" is a loose social construct, a series of visual impressions, and that your identity can be whatever the hell crazy thing you want it to be, you just have to grow a sense of humor and cultivate selective deafness.”
“I heard from a contact on Mars, Jaghatai, that you do strange things to your ships." The Khan shot him a heavy-lidded stare. "I heard from a contact that you do strange things to your warriors.”
Source: Scars
“I heard from my cat's lawyer today; my cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles.”
“I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point...? Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked. Expecto Patronum! The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall.”
“I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites? She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?”
“I heard God tell me, “The very things you think you did right are the very things you did wrong.”
Source: Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts
“I heard governor Romney here called me an economic lightweight because I wasn't a Wall Street financier like he was. Do you really believe this country wants to elect a Wall Street financier as the president of the United States? Do you think that's the experience that we need? Someone who's going to take and look after as he did his friends on Wall Street and bail them out at the expense of Main Street America.”
“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.”
“I heard her scream one night while she was sleeping.
Heard but didn't see.
When I turned, there was nothing.
No one.
Only darkness.
But I know what I heard.”
Source: The Tome of Knowledge
“I heard him sweeping with the broom, and then he suddenly stopped.
I had obviously got his attention, and he was looking.
Take a good look, honey, I thought. Take a good look at what I’m offering.
I liked the sound of that silence. Do you know what I mean? Have you heard that silence yourself?
I love that silence you get, when a man who you fancy notices your body.
In a weird way, it’s so loud, it’s deafening.
It could be because of the way you sway your hips, your legs, or thrust your breasts.
And you just know his erection is talking to him, about what he’d like to do to your body. How he’d like to have his delightfully wicked way with you, undress you, smother your naked skin with hungry urgent kisses, and thrust his hard and moist cock deep inside the pouting red lips of your mouth…
I think you get my drift.
There’s a lovely tension in that moment; I call it the lust moment.
When a sexy man sees what you’ve deliberately put out on offer, and he stops in his steps as his lust lights up his mind, and puts him on a new track.”
Source: Naked and Sexual
“I heard his voice first, a captivating melody that stirred something deep within me. And then, our eyes met in an electric exchange, his piercing blue gaze locking onto mine. In that instant, I felt an irresistible pull, as if my soul had already chosen to surrender to him. That’s where it all began. He was like a quagmire, drawing me in with an allure impossible to resist. Once you step into the mire, its grip tightens, pulling you deeper with each struggle. Despite your efforts to break free, you find yourself sinking, consumed by its darkness. And in the end, you stop fighting and yield to its embrace.”
Source: Darkness In The Light #2
“I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.”
Source: As I Wake
“I heard I'm going to have scenes with Lady Gaga so I'm hoping it's true. I know of one scene I have.”
“I heard in my own voice the tulmult of a young man playig a role, uneasily, repackaging black R&B music from America, relying on gimmicky outfits, and pretending to be wild & free when in reality he needed to be looked after by his mother.”
Source: Who I Am
“I heard it all the time, but I never looked at it that way. People that said I was too small were the ones that helped my career out. They were the ones that said I would never make it, and they're the ones that made me fight that much harder.”