Heard Quotes

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.

I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.

I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.

But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

I'm certainly hoping that all the recommendations that we have heard will be implemented.

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.

I've heard my share of Van Halen. I never liked rock.

The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

The biggest thing is to let your voice be heard, let your story be heard.

Tom Byron is my friend. JJ Michaels is my friend. I haven't heard from him. I don't know what he believes. A couple of other have called but I haven't called them back.

I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.

It was in the Seventies but I still recall what was a good night for my club. Of course, the stadium has changed now but I have heard that the atmosphere is still the same.

In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a £10 trillion E.U., not a £1.5 trillion Britain.

I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

I'd never heard anything about this at all.

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.

I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research and think about it.

My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'

I have never actually watched 'Glee.' I have heard it is just fantastic.

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.

I've heard that Bon Iver liked my cover of 'Skinny Love.'

I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

I haven't heard anything from anyone in the administration.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Yep, I'll stay a Brisbane Lion, you've heard it first.

The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

I try to have my voice be heard, but not on a regular basis on TV.

I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.