“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.” PeopleYearsTodayInterestCreativeRightsHeardHundredYears AgoStonesFoundationGermanyJointsAssertionCreative PeoplePioneering Author:Johannes Rau
“Who would have guessed that the shots heard 'round the world 225 years ago would fall on deaf ears in a nation now more sympathetic to the gun-grabbing Redcoat than the gun-bearing rebel?” WorldYearsFallNationsHeardGunShotsYears AgoEarsRoundsRebelDeafSympatheticGrabbingDeaf Ears Author:Michelle Malkin
“Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.” ThinkingYearsDifferentFormFiveImagineHeardHundredYears AgoCatMadnessStrangerTricksLikesImagine ThatYardsGreyPresent Day Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation. Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?” WorldShouldYearsFirstsDiesFeltHeardCrimeThis WorldSummerBirdYears AgoShould HaveWarmthCheerTornConsolationRemorse Author:Mary Wollstonecraft
“The Wild Hunt is known in all Celtic countries; it is a huntsman with a pack of hounds who is seen or heard to rush through the country. Those who see him are doomed to die. The writer heard the Wild Hunt quite distinctly one night in Wales several years ago, but has not suffered any ill effects from it as yet.” YearsCountryNightDiesKnownHeardEffectsYears AgoIllPacksDoomedHuntsOne NightWalesCelticHounds Author:Robertson Davies
“Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn't even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer.” NeedsGivingYearsFirstsChildrenIdeasSelfShowsFoundEnergyHeardInvolvedBattleYears AgoTwentiesPoliceObviousCriminalsLawyerBreakupServingGatheringShow BusinessAccusedTransparencyAttorneyTwenty OneAccusationEnmitySelf ServingSecond ThoughtsCustodyMiaCriminal LawMalevolenceMolestation Author:Woody Allen
“I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned, paradoxically, is that there is much to be heard in silence.” YearsSilenceOne ThingHeardTaughtYears AgoEarsTwenties Author:Mark Nepo
“Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.” WorldYearsTwoHeardCenturyHundredYears AgoBlowAround The WorldHaitiPrecursor Author:Baldwin Spencer
“I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.” YearsSongMagicHeardMastersYears AgoConnectedInterpretationDemos Author:Q-Tip
“Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.” IfsYearsMeanPersonsEyePastSpeakLanguagePrayerHeardPossibilityWallHolyMetsPaperYears AgoStonesWarmReachingTouchedReach OutTouristsBeing MeJerusalemScrapBeing LovedWailingCrevice Author:Zoketsu Norman Fischer
“It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it.” KnowsYearsSaidSportsSoundHeardDiseaseToughYears AgoMadnessBlessedHeyFortunateNbaFanaticsSports FanEspnGetting Fired Author:Dick Vitale
“I remember a few years ago I was sitting at home with my wife watching the Oscars. I was sitting on the couch and suddenly heard my voice. It's thrilling. It's interesting that a lot of guys do me. I have a friend who does me on his answering machine so when I call him I talk to myself. I don't really know what that comes from. It doesn't seem to me that I speak in a strange way. My wife says Kevin's (Spacey) the best.” KnowsWayYearsDoeHomeSeemsRememberGuySpeakVoiceInterestingWifeHeardStrangeSittingYears AgoMachinesMy WifeOscarsThrillingCouchesKevinAnswering Machines Author:Christopher Walken
“I heard John Wells say something really smart, many years ago. He said, "Assume your audience is really intelligent. Assume that they are really smart, and tell your story that way." So, for me, it's about never assuming that they will go away because they're not entertained.” WayYearsWellsSaidStoriesAudienceHeardSmartYears AgoIntelligentAssumingGoing AwayReally SmartSmart Man Author:Veena Sud
“I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh the first story. Gnomon is such an interesting word. So many different uses for a word nooone has heard of, or uses these days. I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.” ThinkingTryingYearsFirstsDifferentStoriesUseRememberNextBitsInterestingCitiesHeardCoupleShadowFairsYears AgoSaintChecksThanksThese DaysParisFascinatingTallCastingEndeavourDublinSundials Author:Brian D. McLaren
“Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.” YearsHeardYears AgoIndianExpect NothingJesuit Author:Lawrence Fagg
“It's something we do every week. Every week kind of has bigger name headliners. It's all just our taste. There's a lot of people like Ian Edwards or Dan Mintz who a lot of people haven't heard of yet, but we know are really great. When we started the show five years ago it wasn't because Patton Oswalt needs another place to play. It was because we had a lot of new friends like BJ Novak or Morgan Murphy, who didn't have any club to play.” PeopleKnowsNeedsYearsKindPlayShowsNamesFiveHeardWeekHavensTasteYears AgoBiggerClubsFive YearsReally GreatNew FriendsMurphy Author:B. J. Porter
“In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.” ThinkingYearsMayMadeMightArtistSongSoundVisionMillionsRecordsHeardMediaParticularReaderSixYears AgoBlowReviewersPersonal Vision Author:Van Morrison
“I first met the brand [Didier Dubot] when I went to an event for them on Top of The Standard. It was about three years ago. It was the first time I heard about them and then that's where I met them.” YearsFirstsThreeHeardEventsMetsStandardsFirst TimeYears AgoBrandsThree Years Author:Julia Restoin Roitfeld
“The first animation thing I did was the first Transformers, the one that was animated many years ago. And I had heard that Orson Welles was doing a voice on it.” YearsFirstsVoiceHeardYears AgoAnimationAnimated Author:Judd Nelson
“I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.” YearsFirstsBookEarthNamesHeardSixYears AgoFinishedFiftyPrintPublishersSeventiesPublishRefusalEnglish Speaking Author:George Bernard Shaw
“In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a prayer, might I feel the pain he felt? They say that on a visit to an old castle or whatever, the history of the place, the presence of people who walked there many years ago, can be felt in the body. Before, when I heard things like that, I would think, what are they talking about? But i felt I understood it now.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsYearsBodyMightPainFeltPrayerTalkingHeardUnderstoodYears AgoEternityDiedOneselfSpotsLoved OnesCastles Book:Three plays Source: Three plays
“He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")” YearsFirstsLittlesMadeDifferentReasonFeelingsWould BeLastsGamesHouseMillionsSawsHeardTreeSadnessCryWindSpringYears AgoEmptyLaysTonightGrandmotherAutumnOctoberAutumn Leaves Author:Ray Bradbury