What would the blind see, when they hear this music?
Nicholas E. Plath
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LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to s...
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SOURCE UNKNOWN For I hear music, they were saying. Music wakes us. Music makes us see the hidden, join the broken. ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
BIBLE Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN Pity the person neither blind nor deaf, who cannot see and will not hear.
JIM SCALISE The music is very beautiful, but when people hear it they experience emotions and a meaning that goe...
LAURA FREID Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.
PROVERB Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.
GERMAN PROVERB When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?'...
SUE TOWNSEND Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see
MARK TWAIN Kindness: a language the deaf can hear, the blind can see, and the mute can
speak.
UNKNOWN When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they r...
SHANNON L. ALDER Some people are somewhat immature: when they see your ‘nakedness’, they would shout for everyone...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Being blind to color makes you to see what you've been too blind to see
THABISO MONKOE It's music to inspire children to feel the music, in melody and in rhythm. We want to inspire childr...
AUDREY MUELLER When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - lookin...
CHARLES BOWEN None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
MATTHEW HENRY Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
ENGLISH PROVERB Happiness is the sweet language that the blind can see and the wonderful song that the deaf can hear...
ANDREW WORKMAN But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
HARPER LEE You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.
MEG WHITE People see what you are before they hear what you are.
VIKRANT PARSAI I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?...
A. R. RAHMAN Kindness is the language we all can speak, even the deaf can hear it and the blind can see it...
ANOMNOUS Show them what they want to see, tell them what they want to hear, when we strike, it will be too la...
POATE J MATAIRAVULA Music That Brings, The Meaning Of our Life.
Music That Shows, The Light From Our Soul.
SAUMYA MOHANTY Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that ...
LOU RAWLS I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it.
WIZ KHALIFA You cry when you see these kids around the world, ... would never be able to afford the (hearing aid...
MICHAEL BOLTON The blind can see love, the deaf can hear love, the mute can express love, and the disabled can carr...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.
DALE RENTON I am never merry when I hear sweet music
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.
CARLENE CARTER The art is huge. What people see is just as important as what they hear.
JEFF PETERSEN People will hear music this year.
AXL ROSE We should have the blind to teach us how to see.
ANDONI GARCIA Wages growth is, from what we hear, firmer than you would see in the official statistics.
ANTHONY RICHARDS It integrates everything that is important to them: games, friends, sports, e-mail, music, books, mo...
DEBBIE TRAVIS I could see the crosses burning and I could hear all the words they would use, the N-word and the ha...
CATHERINE JOHNSON When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.
GEORGE FARQUHAR When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
GEORGE FARQUHAR When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into / matrimony.
GEORGE FARQUHAR My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard y...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to ta...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Mankind has been creating beautiful music for many centuries. What we call early music tends to be v...
MARY JOHNSON If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you m...
CHöGYAM TRUNGPA I think that if our music didn't mean anything to anyone, we wouldn't be having this conversation ri...
MARILYN MANSON Our music is different, something people will never hear from another band. Once they listen, hear t...
MATT CROSSLEY Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language t...
LOU RAWLS When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will hav...
E. W. HOWE When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will hav...
EDGAR WATSON HOWE When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest t...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
MARTY RUBIN Reasons... questions... what they have in common?
- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER I have to tell you that I love people. When I see the kids coming up and see what they have done wit...
BETTY WRIGHT Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG If you talk to any member of Congress, they will tell you that when they go home, this is what they ...
BILL BURTON What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or he...
HELEN KELLER The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.
MALORIE BLACKMAN There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they...
BILLY SHEEHAN If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.
LIBBA BRAY No one else can bring this overwhelming advantage, ... We can see and know where the enemy is and th...
DON SHEPPERD But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit, For if they coul...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.
NICHOLAS SPARKS A dull ax is more dangerous than a sharp one.
NICHOLAS SPARKS It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee, a sort of wager on my part.
NICHOLAS SPARKS My dearest,
I write this letter by candlelight as you lie sleeping. And though I can't hear th...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Noah, wherever you are and whenever you read this, I love you. I
love you deeply, my husband. ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
NICHOLAS SPARKS Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
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SYLVIA PLATH I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.
SYLVIA PLATH Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly
CHINESE PROVERBS When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. An...
ROBERT RANKIN I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can fe...
PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can f...
PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can fe...
PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA What do you see in a guy like Christian Prescott?" he asked me that night when he dropped me off fro...
CYNTHIA HAND I hope they do find a reason (for his death), so we don't see this again. You hear about people pass...
ERIC WILSON I hope they do find a reason (for his death), so we don't see this again, ... You hear about people ...
ERIC WILSON When you hear about what they are … you'll be amazed. It's kind of refreshing to hear what some of...
JERRY LARSON If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
DARIUS RUCKER A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music.
SHARON WEIL Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I just want people to hear the music the way it's suppose to sound, the way we meant for them to...
DR. DRE I once was blind, but now I see; deaf, but now I hear; ignorant, but now I know; and dead, but now I...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but...
JOSé SARAMAGO This is a very popular format among my audiences because they love to have the performer explain the...
PETER GACH Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you wh...
JOSé SARAMAGO When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When ...
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SYLVIA PLATH The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATH The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
SYLVIA PLATH What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is ...
SYLVIA PLATH So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being ...
SYLVIA PLATH My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off ...
SYLVIA PLATH I Am Vertical
But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the ...
SYLVIA PLATH The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.
SYLVIA PLATH What did my arms do before they held you?
SYLVIA PLATH I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
SYLVIA PLATH Is anyone anywhere happy?
SYLVIA PLATH I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to rea...
SYLVIA PLATH I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but...
SYLVIA PLATH What is so real as the cry of a child?
A rabbit's cry may be wilder
But it has no soul.
SYLVIA PLATH You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult ki...
SYLVIA PLATH It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing nega...
SYLVIA PLATH Hastanenin arazisi yeni yağmış karla örtülüydü -bu bir Noel serpintisi değil, ocak ayının ...
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