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“I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.”

Knows Men May Said Book Matter Clear Doubt Heard Convince Wilderness Priests Settlement Traders

Author:James F. Cooper

“I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.”

Said Light Dies Rooms Heard Corners Smell Bread Baking Around The Corner Bright Lights

Author:Rick Bass

Source: The Hermit's Story: Stories

“I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.”

Ifs Want Years Mean Said Winning Five Heard Husband Five Years My Husband Oscars Academy

Author:Julianne Moore

“I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.”

People Lying Heard Fool People Lie

Author:Steve Martin

“I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work is very much who I am. I didn't try to make it that way; it just is. It reflects who I am and also my interests.”

Ifs Way Feels Trying Self Artist Interest Heard Photography Photographer Who I Am Portraits Abstraction Good Art Self Portrait Good Artist Self Portrait Photography

Author:Joyce Tenneson

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

Knows Mean Heard Quiet Superstar

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but don't understand word endings. They're probably "over-workaholled".”

People Humor Funny Heard Chocolate Epidemics

Author:Demetri Martin

“I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.”

People Believe Children Long Use Speak Heard Gay Long Time Claims Delicate Saying No

Author:Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Source: Tendencies

“I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.”

Children Talking Cases Heard Walking Normal Profound Wounds Tragic Disorder Vaccines Mental Disorder

Author:Rand Paul

“I've heard of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. But I've never heard of Someday.”

Heard Someday Monday Friday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Author:Reverend Ike

“I've heard of people stopping their cars, having car wrecks, all kinds of things. But most of the banjo players I know had that moment when they heard Earl Scruggs. So, for me, it transcends the technique. It's the musician in him and his personality, his musical personality, such great taste, such great technique, very, very creative.”

People Knows Kind Moments Creative Player Heard Car Personality Taste Musician Musical Technique All Kinds That Moment Stopping Wrecks Banjos Car Wreck Banjo Players

Author:Earl Scruggs

“I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me.”

Sometimes Heard Translators Collaborating

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'”

People Feelings Able Left Felt Growing Up Growing Heard Gay Labels Protestants Gay People

Author:Graham Norton

“I've heard people ask, What's so sacred about a classic books that you can't change it for the modern child? Nothing is sacred about a classic. What makes a classic is the life that has accrued to it from generation after generation of children. Children give life to these books. Some books which you could hardly bear to read are, for children, classic.”

People Giving Children Book Modern Classic Classic Book

Author:Frances Clarke Sayers

“I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.”

People Memories Struggle Rights Heard Middle Movement East Civil Rights Middle East Dictatorship Civil Rights Movement Most Inspiring

Author:Peter Beinart

“I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,' and I just want to say, 'Shut up. Everything you're saying is wrong.' People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books.”

People Ifs Knows Want Needs Book Motivation Heard Sells Titles Repeats Site Shut Up Tweet

Author:Maureen Johnson

“I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men Way Looks I Can Hard Play Care Next Natural Heard Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Rio Ferdinand

“I've heard people say my swing's not perfect, and I know that. But golf's a natural sport, very sensitive. It's played a lot by feel. I don't care if my swing is too flat. If it works, I don't have to change it.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Care Sports Natural Perfect Heard Golf Don't Care I Don't Care Sensitive Flats Swings Not Perfect

Author:Sergio Garcia

“I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.”

People Thinking Believe Heard Positive Thinking Percent Add Golf Technique Being Positive Golf Life Great Golf Golf Putting

Author:Chi Chi Rodriguez

“I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.”

People Ifs Feels Long Easy Attention Focus Heard Block Attention Span Short Attention Spans

Author:Dan Quayle

“I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.”

People Said Ideas Running Plans Heard Creation Huge Behavior Bottom Mess Good Ideas Rescue Desperation

Author:Anne Lamott

“I've heard people say that maybe we'd be better served had we lost. I was kind of wondering what profession they were in. I wouldn't want a lawyer representing me to think like that. I wouldn't want a doctor operating on me to think like that.”

People Thinking Want Kind Lost Wonder Heard Doctors Profession Lawyer Representing Volleyball

Author:Russ Rose

“I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.”

People Thinking World Enough Sides Leader Trouble Heard Havens Deserve Crowds Following Cheer Followers Thinker Engineers Economist Great Leader Surgeons Great Thinkers

Author:Babe Ruth

“I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. “If I feel peaceful,” they say, “why would I bother taking action at all?” My answer is “Because that's what love does.” To think that we need sadness or outrage to motivate us to do what's right is insane. As if the clearer and happier you get, the less kind you become. As if when someone finds freedom, she just sits around all day with drool running down her chin. My experience is the opposite. Love is action.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Kind Doe Running Action Answers Love Is Heard Sadness Opposites Painful Insane Peaceful Bother Activist Outrage Taking Action Chins Katie Painful Thoughts

Author:Byron Katie

“I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?"”

People Ifs Feels Action Peace Heard Painful Peaceful Bother Activist Taking Action Katie Painful Thoughts

Author:Byron Katie

“I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.”

People Feels Book Bigs Winning Heard Pressure Honestly Gathering Great Book Hang Over

Author:Anne Enright

“I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.”

People Giving Trying Believe Ideas Christian Jesus Felt Answers Christianity Environment Heard Example Son Institutions Plenty Posts Honorable Vivid Marketplace Presentation Christendom

Author:Timothy Keller

“I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas.”

Knows Writing Book Interesting Heard Very Interesting Rumor Writing A Book

Author:Catherine Crier

“I've heard so many stories of Jared [Kushner] being groomed from a very young age - really, from from when he was a child - to be playing a prominent role in the business world, in sort of the elite world - in elite circles.”

World Children Stories Age Young Roles Heard Circles Elites Young Age Prominent Business World

Author:Jared Kushner

“I've heard so many stories of young girls watching the Olympics and being inspired by it, and they want to do it now, and that's really cool.”

Want Stories Young Girl Heard Inspired Olympics Really Cool

Author:Allyson Felix

“I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and occasionally I'm capable of that, but I have to admit that I really have trouble working with completely open briefs.”

Process Trouble Heard Design Capable Starting Invention Admire Designer Blank Slate Blank Slates Design Process

Author:Michael Bierut

“I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.”

Heard Worst Accents Mickey Irish Accent

Author:James Nesbitt

“I've heard some of Victoria's new album and it's frightening.”

Heard Albums Frightening Victoria

Author:David Beckham

“I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want to be rude, but if it's uninvited attention from people it's like, "Thank you, but no." I'm going to shut you down right away.”

People Ifs Want Attention Heard Just One Bad Things Rude Uninvited

Author:Sophia Bush

“I've heard some readers saying they wished the story was longer, and I completely understand that desire - we all like to sink into a nice, long novel.”

Long Stories Desire Novel Nice Heard Reader

Author:Theodora Goss

“I've heard some things about how it went from the other side. A lot of times you don't get to hear from the other side. I'm just glad to have the opportunity to fill Rosita's shoes, and hopefully I can make the fans happy.”

I Can Opportunity Sides Heard Fans Shoes Glad Hopefully

Author:Christian Serratos

“I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.”

Want Years Ideas Turns Heard Radio Tunes Turn-on

Author:Mose Allison

“I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.”

Writing Ends Novel Heard Kings About Yourself Revealing

Author:Ernest Cline

“I've heard stories about me as a kid. My dad got me a T-shirt that said "here comes trouble," and when I ask my mom what I was like, she just sighs with this weary tone and says, "Oh, you were really busy."”

Said Stories Kids Asks Trouble Heard Mom Dad My Dad Busy My Mom Shirts Tone Weary Sigh T Shirt

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe”

Sometimes Imagine Heard Grandpa

Author:Roald Dahl

“I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics.”

Want Said Film Time Fun Heard Ready Working It Frank Hitchcock

Author:Jim Woodring

“I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.”

People Faces Black Heard One Day Sells Magazines Black People Black Face

Author:Michael Jackson

“I've heard that fact, that is you eat more than six bananas it will kill you. I saw a bowl with seven bananas in it and I thought, that's dangerous.”

Facts Saws Heard Dangerous Six Seven Bowls Bananas

Author:Karl Pilkington

“I've heard that I'm 'the future of tennis.' But that's all just random stuff.”

Stuff Heard Tennis Random Stuff

Author:Sloane Stephens

“I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.”

Ifs Thinking Want Black Heard Stupid Mines Fine Skins Black Women Lighters Complexion Bleach

Author:NeNe Leakes

“I've heard that it's some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it up into DSLR quality imagery.”

Kind Two Use Quality Heard Cameras Lenses Imagery

Author:John Gruber

“I've heard that Oasis or Coldplay will sell tickets, but they can't sell records. They sold out Madison Square Garden in three hours. And they can't sell albums. I don't know what's going on.”

Hours Garden

Author:Jez Williams

“I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up with their age cohorts at Goldman. This can't possibly end well in terms of meeting these expectations.”

Want Wells Ends Age School Term Half Heard Students Expectations Meetings Fund Elites Equity One Half Hedge Fund Private Equity

Author:Charlie Munger

“I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.”

People Littles Said Turns Water Situation Heard Degrees Abuse Pot Domestic Violence Frogs Boiling Bad Situations Boiling Water

Author:Deb Caletti

Source: Stay

“I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are. who's more confused, those who think weapons are sexual organs, or those who want to take everyone's sexual organs away?.”

People Thinking Want Heard Weapons Argument Driven Symbols Confused Organs Helpless

Author:L. Neil Smith

Source: The Probability Broach

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