Quotes on Hearing

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.

Author: Spencer Abraham

The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea.

Author: Robert Barany

Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.

Author: Stephanie Beacham

I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.

Author: Georg Brandes

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

Author: Bill Bruford

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

Author: William Buckley, Jr.

As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it.

Author: Robert Casey

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.

Author: Margaret Cavendish

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

Author: Jimmy Chamberlin

It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.

Author: Joe Cocker

We provided complete protection to witnesses - right of attorney, right of record, right to cross-examine, and open hearing if they desired. Only Mr. Lane asked for an open hearing.

Author: John Cooper

There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

Author: Peter Davison

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

Author: Billy Eckstine

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Author: Ralph Emerson

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.

Author: Suzanne Farrell

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

Author: Howard Fineman

I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?

Author: Peter Fonda

I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.

Author: Harold Ford

The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'

Author: James Franco

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Author: Sigmund Freud

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

Author: Arnold Glasgow

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.

Author: Temple Grandin

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

Author: Robert Graves

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

Author: John Gray

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.

Author: Kathleen Hanna

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

Author: Moss Hart

I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.

Author: Jack Irons

I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

Author: Mikhail Kalashnikov

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

Author: Elia Kazan

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them.

Author: Arto Lindsay

Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them.

Author: Arto Lindsay

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

Author: Norman MacCaig

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.

Author: Marlee Matlin

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Author: George Orwell

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.

Author: Henry Reed

Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.

Author: Marion Ross

I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.

Author: Marion Ross

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Author: J. Rowling

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

Author: Marilyn Savant

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

Author: Jean Savarin

I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.

Author: John Sebastian

You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.

Author: Luiz Silva

A fearful man is always hearing things.

Author: Sophocles

You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.

Author: Jo Stafford