All Quotes

I hear music as narrative.
‐‐ Ajay Naidu

I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.
‐‐ Kathleen Battle

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.
‐‐ LeBron James

I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
‐‐ Indra Nooyi

I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
‐‐ Kate Bush

I hear over and over again from local leaders and business owners that one of the best ways we can revitalize our cities and towns is to support brownfields cleanup efforts.
‐‐ Elizabeth Esty

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
‐‐ Charles Stanley

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.
‐‐ Clarence Thomas

I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.
‐‐ Alan Hansen

I hear people saying we need this and we need that as a society, but is it really fair for the government - i.e. the taxpayers - to provide people with cell phones? I don't think so.
‐‐ Tim Griffin

I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.
‐‐ Nicole Holofcener

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
‐‐ Felix Dennis

I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.
‐‐ Connie Smith

I hear so many people talking about what's wrong, whether it's climate change or whatever, but so few say, 'Well, look, we've got this problem, so let's find the solution. Let's find a scientist, let's find politicians who are prepared to shape the future, or try and keep up with it.'
‐‐ Jenny Shipley

I hear so many startups talking about how they can raise VC instead of questioning whether they need it in the first place.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
‐‐ Karen Joy Fowler

I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

I hear that Brooke Ashley is also pressing charges. I don't know how she can prove anything. How can they prove anything, whether it's true or not, that I'm the one that infected her?
‐‐ Marc Wallice

I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

I hear that I'm funny, and I think I'm funny, but I go in all the time for multicam, and they say that I'm not big enough, or I'm too big. I'm so confused. Okay, well, I'm funny in real life.
‐‐ Kirby Bliss Blanton

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
‐‐ Muriel Rukeyser

I hear the Sophie Giraffe is great for teething. Another thing I really love right now is the Moby Baby Carrier. To me, it seems like a natural way to hold the baby close to you. I also love the burp cloths, bibs, and swaddle blankets from Aden and Anais. Their stuff is organic and pure.
‐‐ Vanessa Lachey

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'
‐‐ Jason Reitman

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
‐‐ Audrey Hepburn

I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.'
‐‐ Tracy Anderson

I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'
‐‐ James Harden

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me.
‐‐ Mike Stoller

I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white woman wrote it. Nobody said that to me, they just said, 'The Help - Oh my god, you've got to read it.' Everyone failed to mention it was a white woman, I think, because nobody really wants to talk about race.
‐‐ Viola Davis

I heard about the Holocaust before hearing the 'Cinderella' story or watching 'Peter Pan.'
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer

I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'
‐‐ Jake Gyllenhaal

I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.
‐‐ Toby Jones

I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'
‐‐ Bradley Whitford

I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.
‐‐ Hattie Morahan

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

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.
‐‐ Maria Sharapova

I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.
‐‐ Tiesto

I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set.
‐‐ Lisa Edelstein

I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.
‐‐ Pardis Sabeti

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.
‐‐ Elton John

I heard 'More Than A Feeling' for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and said, 'Your song's on the radio in the drafting department!'
‐‐ Tom Scholz

I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.
‐‐ Jimmy Smith

I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.
‐‐ Maurice Gibb

I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That's probably the thing that I'm most sensitive of in all my friendships and my relationships. I just... I just can't take that. I'm comfortable with enemies, but I can't take it from friends.
‐‐ Vincent Gallo

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.
‐‐ Mark Burnett

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.
‐‐ Justin Townes Earle