Best Heard Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.”

Heard Clock Clock Ticking Biological Clock

“In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.”

America Young Pieces Heard South Heroic Misunderstanding Symphony Conductor South America

Author:Kurt Masur

“Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.”

Stills Today Form Individual Voice Chance Heard Communication Mass Mass Communication

Author:Scott McCloud

“The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie.”

Ifs Giving Children Sleep Heard Advice Baby Mom Walking Zombie Newborn Sleeping Baby

Author:Tia Mowry

“I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.”

Ifs Firsts Bigs Remember Growing Up Growing Happened Heard Subjects Jokes Jersey

Author:Oscar Nunez

“I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.”

Heard Chosen Awards Cardinals

Author:Aaron Neville

“I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.”

Firsts Heard Ten First Time Nine Santa Santa Claus

Author:Joe Nichols

“From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.”

Thinking Want Running America Vision Issues Heard

Author:Barbara Olson

“Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.”

Made I Can Next Mistake Imagine Heard Picks Election Clinton Statements Administration Als Imagine That Gore Mantras Mistakes Were Made

Author:Barbara Olson

“I have not heard from President Barack. I've never gotten a phone call.”

President Heard Phones Barack Phone Calls

Author:Jay Pharoah

“I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.”

Said Heard Profound Chairs

Author:Neil Diamond

“If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.”

Ifs Way Running Heard Promise Ears I Promise Plugs

Author:Sarah Paulson

“You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.”

Knows Firsts Done Bigs Joy Hate Causes Heard Fans First Time Absolutes Albums Frustration Mixtures Hate Myself

Author:Andy Partridge

“The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.”

Knows World Kind Country Seems Culture Speak Language Social Grace Heard Our Country Speaks French Social Graces

Author:Bernard Pivot

“At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.”

Ends Heard Republican Investment Get Better The End Of The Day Workforce

Author:Bev Perdue

“George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!”

Film Courses Heard Orange Casting Clockwork

Author:David Prowse

“I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.”

Firsts Believe Stuff Enemy Heard Hip Hop Hips Hops Public Enemies

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.”

Want I Can Stories Heard Hard Work Prove Harder Meetings Work Harder Wacky Prove Myself New Relationship

Author:Sean Parker

“A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.”

Looks Stills School Results Novel Progress Heard Changed High School Hollywood Election Producers Life Changing Screenwriters Drawers Wishbones

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.”

Ideas Reading Heard College Fascinated Rapture

Author:Tom Perrotta

“A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.”

People Littles Play Problem Heard Musician Cat Forgiving Assuming Singers Assumption New Orleans Soulful Intonation

Author:Wendell Pierce

“Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.”

Want Heard Folks

Author:Erik Qualman

“I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Bigs Used Novel Taken Heard Serious Eating Nine Nine Years

Author:Ian Rankin

“I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.”

Writing Ideas Jobs Film Guy Class Heard Taught Conversation Office Tables Fortune Various Chinese Sat Restaurants Grants Microphones Day Jobs Bartender Short Films

Author:David O. Russell

“If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.”

Ifs Should Made Reason Law Humanity Voice Differences Justice Wife Heard Husband Favors Husband And Wife Husband Wife

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.”

People Years Today Interest Creative Rights Heard Hundred Years Ago Stones Foundation Germany Joints Assertion Creative People Pioneering

Author:Johannes Rau

“I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.”

Thinking Song Culture Quality Heard Emotional Brother Exciting Hip Hop Hips Evolve Vulnerability Hops Quests Tribes Jungle Tribe Called Quest

Author:Michael Rapaport

“I definitely think that females have a harder time. It's a lot harder to be a girl because you're always in your head. I've heard my brother go and take it out on the football as he says. Whereas girls would rather sit down and over think things.”

Thinking Girl Heard Football Brother Female Harder Down And My Brother

Author:Nikki Reed

“My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.”

Made Mother Heard Traditional Islands Tunes Melody Adaptation Trademarks St Thomas

Author:Sonny Rollins

“I never heard 'I love you' as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.”

Children Felt Heard Love You

Author:Karrine Steffans

“Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of.”

People May Book Matter Stories Happens Heard Video Encounters Confession Life Story Vixens

Author:Karrine Steffans

“We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.”

Knows Littles Real Happens Young Mother Father Black Born Boys Issues Heard Serious Dad Young Women Serious Issues Black Boy

Author:Karrine Steffans

“I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.”

People Wanted Used Comedy Heard Southern Accents Southern Accent

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.”

Thinking Firsts Real Kids Player Generations Heard Groups Jazz Affection Silver My Generation Back When

Author:David Sanborn

“I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.”

World Want States Sports Natural Levels United United States Player Heard Highest Baseball Baseball Player

Author:Ichiro Suzuki

“What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.”

“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.”

“For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.”

Long Stories Hands Actors Voice Acting Path Heard Projects Unique Developing Minorities Unique Voices

Author:Jimmy Smits

“I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.”

Persons Lasts Names Heard New York Tests Incredibles Screens

Author:Mary Steenburgen

“I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.”

People Writing Jobs Moving Used Song Parent Rooms Nice Heard Amount Let Me Tiny Used To Be Fractions Really Nice

Author:Regina Spektor

“I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.”

Earth Christian Heard Crosses Thirds Symbols One Time

Author:Zack Snyder

“I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.”

Ifs Knows Moving Stuff Heard Havens Getting Old

Author:Josh Turner

“I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.”

Knows States Heard Hair Jokes Wheels Do You Know Steering

Author:Yulia Tymoshenko

“I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.”

Ifs World Want Whole Helping Lasts Fighting Voice Heard Breaths Court Prison International Whole World Ukrainian

Author:Yulia Tymoshenko

“We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.”

Heard

Author:Fred Upton

“I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.”

Thinking Knows Littles Community Heard Scene Scales Dialogue Nervous African American

Author:Gabrielle Union

“There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.”

Ifs Pieces Heard Music Is Familiarity Celtic Celtic Music

Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.”

Men Said Guy Song Dark Heard Couple Hip Hop Studios Hips Hops

Author:Alan Vega

“I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.”

Laughing Heard Incredibles Mum Very Happy Eccentric

Author:Carol Vorderman

“Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.”

Enough Seems Heard Expectations Hollywood Come Up

Author:Conrad Veidt

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