Heard Quotes - Page 8

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

  Little Richard

  Names, Kind, Call Me

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

  Meg Ryan

  Thinking, Chivalry

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• 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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• One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.

  D. L. Hughley

  Beautiful, People, Laughing

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• I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.

  Amber Heard

  Beautiful, Powerful, Women

  "Amber Heard THE RUM DIARY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

  Rumi

  Anniversary, Marriage, Valentines Day

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Untitled”

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• God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Self Esteem, Helping

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Crowds, Strikeouts

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