Heard Quotes

• It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Culture, Literature, Notes

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• If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

  Kurt Masur

  Symphony, Age, Orchestra

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• The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

  Jean Paul

  Family, Dad, Children

  Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.17

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• If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

  Robin Quivers

  Speech, Said, Ifs

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• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'

  Jon Stewart

  President, Politics, Debate

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• 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.

  Patrick Stewart

  Teacher, Stars, Science

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• I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Positive, Success

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• When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Stars, Learning

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.42, New York Review of Books

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• I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Christmas, Sweet, Xmas

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.475, Library of America

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• I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

  Lee Konitz

  Music, Play, Jazz

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• Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything.

  Johnny Miller

  Golf, Knows

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• No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.

  Priscilla Presley

  Travel, Adventure, Together

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• There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

  L. Sprague de Camp

  Children, Writing, Brain

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• I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

  Big Bill Broonzy

  Song, Horse, Folks

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• The shot heard round the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Revolutionary War, Augusta National, April And Spring

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

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• I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

  Meg Ryan

  Thinking, Chivalry

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• Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Life, Nice, People

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• I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

  Little Richard

  Names, Kind, Call Me

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• I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.

  Jason Biggs

  Book, Pie, Waiting

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• 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.

  Bai Ling

  Struggle, People, Acting

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• So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, God, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Atheist, Believe

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