Quotes about hearing page 8
“As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi
Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
“Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.”
Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
“I hear you. I just don't believe a word you say.”
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen”
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.”
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American playwright and novelist
“What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.”
Michael Connelly book Trunk Music
Source: Trunk Music
“4. You hear his voice in a crowd more than any other.”
Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 13
“So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Source: The Complete Short Stories
“Just because you can't see them and you can't hear them, that doesn't mean they're not here.”
Graham Masterton (1946) British writer
Source: The Devil in Gray
Anne Ursu (1900) American writer
Source: Breadcrumbs
“I need you,ʺ said Lissa.
ʺI hear that from women a lot,ʺ said Adrian.”
Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice
Source: Last Sacrifice
“I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear”
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Brian Andreas (1956) American artist
Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.”
Isabel Allende book Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Source: Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
“What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?”
Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride
Source: Along for the Ride
“Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.”
Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist
“How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?”
Mary Doria Russell Children of God
Source: Children of God
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Variant: Jackass!" Eve yelled.
"You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome," Shane said.
Source: Last Breath
“I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.”
Iain Banks book Use of Weapons
Source: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter II (p. 417).
Context: He shrugged. “Whatever.”
“Aw, Darac, come on; argue, dammit.”
“I don’t believe in argument,” he said, looking out into the darkness (and saw a towering ship, a capital ship, ringed with its layers and levels of armament and armor, dark against the dusk light, but not dead).
“You don’t?” Erens said, genuinely surprised. “Shit, and I thought I was the cynical one.”
“It’s not cynicism,” he said flatly. “I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.”
“Oh well, thank you.”
“It’s comforting, I suppose.” He watched the stars wheel, like absurdly slow shells seen at night: rising, peaking, falling...(And reminded himself that the stars too would explode, perhaps, one day.) “Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed,” he said. “And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.”
“Excuses, eh? Well, if this ain’t cynicism, what is?” Erens snorted.
“Yes, excuses,” he said, with what Erens thought might just have been a trace of bitterness. “I strongly suspect the things people believe in are usually just what they instinctively feel is right; the excuses, the justifications, the things you’re supposed to argue about, come later. They’re the least important part of the belief. That’s why you can destroy them, win an argument, prove the other person wrong, and still they believe what they did in the first place.” He looked at Erens. “You’ve attacked the wrong thing.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Source: Apocalypse
Diana Wynne Jones book The Lives of Christopher Chant
Source: The Lives of Christopher Chant
Wendy Mass Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
“When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.”
Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted
Source: Girl, Interrupted
John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.”
Jude Watson (1956) novelist
Source: Strings Attached
Lance Armstrong (1971) professional cyclist from the USA
As quoted in "King of the Hill" by Kelli Anderson in Sports Illustrated (5 August 2002) http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2002/sportsman/flashbacks/lance/king_of_the_hill
“Susie: The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
23 Apr 92
The Days Are Just Packed
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
“Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once!”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”
Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist
“Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.”
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer
Source: Stop in the Name of Pants!
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Nightfall
Sherman Alexie book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Variant: The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said.
Source: Fever Pitch
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“I am barren of words. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing”
Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal
Source: Lover Eternal
“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 2: Dangerous
“When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.”
Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs
Source: The Silence of the Lambs