Quotes of: Heard Keyword

Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

Vanna Bonta

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

William Wycherley

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

Yancy Butler

I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.

GG Allin

What I really needed wasn't a dose of school spirit; it was a glass of water, an aspirin the size of my fist, and the answers to the history exam that I hadn't studied for the night before. "As long as I'm dreaming," I muttered, my words lost to the ...

Every Other Day

As Master Nathaniel jogged leisurely along his thoughts turned to the Farmer Gibberty, who many a time must have jogged along this path, in just such a way, and seen and heard the very same things that he was seeing and hearing now. Yes, the Farmer G...

Lud-in-the-Mist

Once when the lawn was a golden green and the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials in the scented air, and the whole countryside pulsed with the chirr and murmur of insects, I lay in the grass, feeling the great distances open above me, an...

Man and Camel

It was that evening, when my mother abdicated her authority, that marked the beginning, along with the slow death of my grandmother, of the decline of my will and of my health. Everything had been decided at the moment when, unable to bear the idea o...

Time Regained

The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a ...

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau

Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of gian...

Salome

Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor my sisters before; and, though I had sometimes heard of them, and felt a curious interest in them, I really did no...

Frederick Douglass

Jodi: Heard they got you pretty bad. Mitch: Yeah. Jodi: They just got Hersh too Mitch: Was it bad? Sabrina Davis: Yeah. Mitch: Was it O'Bannion? Sabrina Davis: I think so Mitch: Man I hate that jerk! Sabrina Davis: Hey I didn't know Jodi was you're b...

Dazed and Confused

[Trying to start Layla's car] Billy Brown: Is this a shifter car? I cannot drive a shifter car, alright, so we got a little situation here. I can't drive these kinda cars! What the fuck is goin' on! You think that's funny? Would you like to know, sma...

Buffalo '66

In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc; his job is merely to record who, under what conditions, said or thought what about God or pessimism. The artist is not meant to be a judge of his characters and w...

Anton Chekhov

They went forth to battle, but they always fell; Their eyes were fixed above the sullen shields; Nobly they fought and bravely, but not well, And sank heart-wounded by a subtle spell. They knew not fear that to the foeman yields, They were not weak, ...

Love

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

Darkfever

I've often heard it said, a preacher Might learn, with a comedian for a teacher.

Faust

Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.

God-Shaped Hole

I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.

Joaquin Phoenix

I've always heard that heli-skiing in Alaska is amazing. I would love to be able to do that at some point in my life.

Lindsey Vonn

I've never heard of a man's cock being described as a fang before. - Rapahel

Angels' Blood