I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

We stay the same as we’ve always been, keeping to the path we’ve walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only...

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

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...

People are not angry, they just want to be heard.

I’ve heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that’s an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.

There is immense power in an idea, because it unites people. It motivates them toward change. But the real power lies in their unity, in coming together – if enough can be rallied to a...

Heaven doesn’t ignore cries of a broken heart.

I heard my teacher said “great people make history”. I am not concern about “great” or “people” or “history”. I am concerned about “make” and it keeps me asking the next question “how?”! They are...

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

Most people heard about Hamas after Hamas started carrying out terrorist attacks. Hamas started out as an idea. Let’s say a noble idea – resisting occupation.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

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.

The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods...

The Joan Crawford that I’ve heard about in ‘Mommie Dearest’ is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

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

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

I’d never heard anything about this at all.

Sometimes you work with somebody you’ve never heard of because you just feel like working.

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!

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

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

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.

You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the...

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

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.

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.

What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader.

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.

In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague...

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day – a song I heard, a bird I saw – which I then put into the novel.

I don’t oppose pipelines – I like infrastructure – but I heard that the Keystone XL pipeline was going to carry tar sands oil from the lands of the Cree and Dene all the way...

I’ve heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I’m a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don’t have hubris.

I’ve heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we’re the real nitty-gritty actors who’re in a town where being onstage doesn’t necessarily get you anything except your craft.

To think of our prayers as just ‘causes’ would suggest that the whole importance of petitionary prayer lay in the achievement of the thing asked for. But really, for our spiritual life as a whole,...

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

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

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.’

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

I’ve heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I’ve never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

I wanted to be heard, not seen. That’s how it all started.

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

I’d heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.

The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?

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

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...

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