Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franklin Graham

I saw my father preach in Madison Square Garden, and I was a little embarrassed, I think, the first time I heard him preach. That's my father up there, and I kind of slid down in my chair.

Brian Posehn

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

Azzedine Alaia

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.

Herbie Hancock

I like to present something that the people haven't seen or haven't heard before. Otherwise they might as well just stay home and play the record.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.

Isaac Watts

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.

Dante Alighieri

The well heeded well heard.

Eli Wallach

When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.

Robert Glasper

I've heard some people say that I'm selling out, but I'm not. If I hadn't done 'Black Radio', and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldn't be honest with myself; I'd be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.

Charles Davenport

We were really locked, ... Two or three people on each side had said 'I'm not budging. I've heard all the evidence. I'm not moving an inch.

We're all concerned. I haven't heard anything about my program.

We wouldn't have heard the end of that, so it was nice to put a win on the board.

Jake Owen

You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell their friends, 'Hey man, have you heard this song?' then I don't think it's worth it. The only way to get your music out there, is for someone to tell their friends about it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

Mario Cuomo

I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'

We were at a cross-roads last week when we heard the news that Ft. Chaffee was no longer sending hurricane survivors to the area.

Debbie Reynolds

Most of you have probably never heard of me.

We haven't really heard anything that would help us predict how this ultimately will be resolved.

I thought it was! Hmm. You must have heard that on the Jungle Queen.

Patrick Murray

I thought I heard shots, I really did. They were kind of muffled, you know, being upstairs on the second floor, but I thought I could hear something.

Brenda Jackson

I thought I was dreaming, ... I heard a really loud bang.

I'm hurt and disgusted. I feel like we disrespected the community. We heard from teachers. We heard from parents. We heard from employees. Overwhelmingly, everyone wanted a later start date. No one wanted to start the seventh or the ninth.

We had heard some rumblings that it might close, but no one thought it would. We're kind of in a state of shock right now. They need to practice this week, they have sectional swim meet at the end of the week.

Bill Thompson

We had heard from parents and people outside the school that we were moving to Lafayette or in that area. But we like to think we're a vital part of the Opelousas community. We're not going anywhere.

We wanted to make sure all of the quotes we've heard from him are accurate. We hoped that they weren't but I think that he proved they probably were.

virtually a living recording of the musical sounds heard hundreds of years ago.

Chuck D.

We'll be performing songs I couldn't get out of town without playing, as well as stuff you've never heard before. It's music that will make people happy.

Maz Jobrani

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'

That was the introduction. I'd never heard of Matt, and I'm sure he'd never heard of us.

Dwyane Wade

That was the first time I've heard that, so it was good.

Luis Fonsi

That was the first song I heard from another writer when we first started to listen to outside songs,

That was one of most horrifying statements I've ever heard in 12 years of doing this work,

That's the very first I've heard of that.