Heard Quotes

• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

  Dale Carnegie

  Purpose, Saws, Feels

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

  Sharon Olds

  Village, Might, Horror

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

  Charles Kettering

  Commitment, Persistence, Sitting Down

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• The larks, still bravely singing, fly
  Scarce heard amid the guns below

  John McCrae

  Gun, Singing, Poppies

  'In Flanders Fields' (1915)

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• Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.

  John Doolittle

  Winning, Political, Newspapers

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• A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

  Roy H. Williams

  Matter, Economy, Remains

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• When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

  Joel Madden

  Changed, Changed My Life

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• Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving, Ministry, Missionary

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• I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

  Boz Scaggs

  Years, Trying, Rays

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• I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

  Edgar Bergen

  Important, Asking, Answers

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• My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.

  Bruce Willis

  Love, Sorry, Wife

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• I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

  Amber Heard

  Girl, Father, Daddy

  Interview with Jonathan Crocker, www.ign.com. February 15, 2008.

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• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  Jack Finney

  Tunes, Bagpipes

  Jack Finney (2013). “From Time to Time”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

  Ellen G. White

  Should, Pulpit

  Ellen G. White (2013). “The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. II. - Prophets and Kings”, p.516, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

  Frank James

  Dog, Horse, Feet

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• You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

  Eriq La Salle

  Psychological, Thrillers, Audience

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

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• I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

  Spencer Abraham

  Sound, May, Might

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• Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

  Earl Wilson

  Temptation, Duty, Temptation Life

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• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

  Barbara Tuchman

  Past, History, Tree

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.26, Random House

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• I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, People, Fairytale

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• And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

  Petrarch

  Tears, Harps

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• I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of

  Norton Juster

  People, Citing, Influence

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• I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

  Christopher Eccleston

  School, Kids, Abuse

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

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• Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Play, Jazz

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