Heard Quotes - Page 38

• The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Hamburgers, Red, Eating

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• When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' .

  Taylor Hackford

  Rays, Pieces, Stones

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• I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.

  Johnny Isakson

  Mother, Night, President

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• Choose something you like to do. I know its a cliche, and youve heard it over and over. But the reason is, youre going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.

  Bill Kurtis

  Long, Life Is, Cliche

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• Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

  George Mikes

  Vocabulary, Average, Use

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• When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

  Bobby Knight

  Thinking, Coaching, Firsts

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• The doctor looked at it after the game and he thought it didn't look too bad, but we'll see what happens. My skate got caught and I twisted it. I heard it twist and I couldn't get up. All my body weight fell on it. I had to be really hurt to leave the game - we were still in the game at that point.

  Martin Brodeur

  Hurt, Doctors, Body Weight

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• I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

  Kristin Hersh

  Games, Play, World

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• I heard about the Dalai Lama, you know and I thought to myself, why not me?

  Zach Braff

  Why Not, Lama, Dalai

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• Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was in a little better physical shape every day, I was getting my looks back, and my spirits were rising, and this was all in all a happy time for me. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

  Denis Johnson

  Voice, Happy Times, People

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• As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an intricate pattern of sound, I knew that someday I would have to return or be haunted forever by the beauty and mystery that is Africa.

  Gerald Durrell

  Fire, Voice, Tree

  Gerald Durrell (1953). “The Overloaded Ark”

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• A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

  Marvin Minsky

  Typewriters, Trying, Sound

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• The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

  Yusef Lateef

  Being Yourself, Voice, Challenges

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• A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.

  Marisa Tomei

  Men, Voice, Able

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• We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Web Of Life, Way, Vegan

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• "Have you heard any Stockhausen?" Beecham was asked. "No, but I believe I have stepped in some."

  Thomas Beecham

  Believe, Belief, Stockhausen

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• So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just kinda on paper. And that of course was at the end of the Civil War. Now there is another phrase I dearly love. That is a true oxymoron if I've ever heard one: "Civil War." Do you think anybody in this country could ever really have a civil war? "Say, pardon me?" (shoots gun) "I'm awfully sorry. Awfully sorry."

  George Carlin

  Country, Sorry, Philosophy

  "What Am I Doing in New Jersey?". Live album by George Carlin, 1988.

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• I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

  Kin Hubbard

  Cost, Want, Living On

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• The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dating, Romance, Female

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• I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

  Lesley Garrett

  Beautiful, Singing, Sound

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Design, Sensual, Enough

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• Look, and it can't be seen.
  Listen, and it can't be heard.
  Reach, and it can't be grasped.
  
  Above, it isn't bright.
  Below, it isn't dark.
  Seamless, unnamable,
  it returns to the realm of nothing.
  Form that includes all forms,
  image without an image,
  subtle, beyond all conception.
  
  Approach it and there is no beginning;
  follow it and there is no end.
  You can't know it, but you can be it,
  at ease in your own life.
  Just realize where you come from:
  this is the essence of wisdom.

  Laozi

  Life, Dark, Essence

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• The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Morning, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1823). “The Life of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: Together with a Number of His Humorous, Moral, and Literary Essays, Chiefly in the Manner of The Spectator”, p.177

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• But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be organised to mathematical principles.

  Lee Smolin

  Effectiveness, Words Of Wisdom, Principles

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• 'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore, A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echo'd along the shore. King: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar, And the first lion thought the last a bore.

  William Barnes Rhodes

  Kings, Echoes, Race

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