I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.
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Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about hi... CARSON MCCULLERS We had heard that they had found her last night. EMILY KABBES Students got the message that they had their chance to be heard and they were. JAY DILLON And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not. BIBLE I had never heard anything like that before. EDDI LAMBERT Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have hear... CARLENE CARTER She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wante... JEFFERY DEAVER They never had a better computer. They never had better lights. They never had better communication ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH They just love this. As soon as students heard about it, they burst into applause. They thought it w... JULIE WEBER Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want,... C.S. LEWIS They had a good quarter but there are a number of things that we heard in the conference call to giv... MICHAEL JUDD I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America. SOFIA VERGARA Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her ... DOUGLAS ADAMS People that didn't go the first year, all they heard was how much fun our fans had. DIRK KATSTRA When I got the offer to do 'Weird Ernie' in the pilot, I was living in New York, and somebod... BRUCE MCGILL I've never heard anyone say they were sorry they had kids. They only say they were sorry they hadn't... PATRICIA JENNERJOHN He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men. DAN GROAT I was struck by how many people responded to just one tiny store and one tiny company that they prob... ALLISON HILL He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed. DEE MARIE He refused to take the bribes. I heard him tell that story more than once. I heard him say they woul... BILL MARSHALL Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they'... CASEY ABRAMS Reasons... questions... what they have in common? - All get finded in the hard way. DEYTH BANGER We had a person streak the even, run naked across the football field. You need people who able to in... JOHN CASEY Putting our heads together talking about things we've heard from the students, what they need, what ... 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WILLIAM WYCHERLEY People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent... BONNIE MCKEE They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated b... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. BIBLE They felt happy, because their voice was heard. Now that they know everyone is going to sit down tog... LYDIA MUNOZ These owners might think they are bettering their pet's chances by concealing behavior problems, but... JAMES SERPELL 'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of a... BRIGITTE BOISSELIER They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into troub... ARTHUR RANSOME I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em ... GG ALLIN Before I had kids, I always found it funny how people would talk about their children like they were... JENNIFER MILLER I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They wer... SARAH J. MAAS The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what the... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE And if things go on as they are, in a few months the men will have cut all the trees down and that w... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH I had never been into the park before and came because I heard that there were no fees today. It's r... CATHY MITCHELL I never heard people speak about segregation as some great cross that they were bearing. They just w... ED SMITH Sometimes things aren't understood until they are ready to be heard. ELIZABETH ALRAUNE He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to kno... JAY ASHER But this too is true: stories can save us. TIM O'BRIEN One of the problems they've run into the last several days that this helps answer is a lot of people... DAVID KING I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for. WILLIAM WYCHERLEY I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justifie... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had tol... AARON SWARTZ We had never heard anything about this. The fact that the kids had a name for it, it's sad. COLLEEN MOORE Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the governme... JAMES WELCH For many Tibetans it was the first time they had heard about it. There were thousands listening in c... KATE SAUNDERS It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these p... KATE MILLETT Some have been to Iraq and others have heard what goes on there. Mainly, what they discuss is being ... LEE ZASLOFSKY Hayley was on fire. They had to get out on her, and that really opened things up for other people. JAMIE RAINS I'm not at all sure anybody accessed that. At least it said we're willing to go there if there's a d... JANE URSCHEL And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. BIBLE Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people belie... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA They had confidence in me shooting the ball. They kept giving me the ball, and I heard them telling ... LUTHER HEAD He had to have screamed. People had to have heard that. TINA BORICH Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea... JODI PICOULT Most errors consist only in our not rightly applying names to things. For when someone says that the... BARUCH SPINOZA He said it was his plan. The implication is that these people had heard Myles Connor's plan, but ins... HAROLD SMITH I felt there was a sense of hope about the new president, and her ability to rebuild for them things... JUDY ELKINS I road their coat tails. When I called a college and wanted an interview, they said, 'Who are you? N... DOUG WEAVER Lots of people talked about things they heard without actually seeing them. JARVIS DEBERRY [Then the earth began shaking at Warner Bros.] We just had a wonderful team there, ... But it's just... HEIDI NEWFIELD And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and ... BIBLE Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that ma... HENRY WADE Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel... STEVE JOBS I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young pe... JEREMY CORBYN A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're ... WENDELL PIERCE Actually, coach Taylor had gotten on the field before Mr. Dunne arrived and she had told us that she... ANGELA EHRHARD They weren't close to what I was asking for. We had some talks and then we asked for certain things,... ALEX KOVALEV I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. ... JOHN LASSETER It had to be that bizarre for us to lose to them. These were things we've never done. They're not th... BILL PALERMO Cora didn't know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar w... COLSON WHITEHEAD All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD You never know. If I tell you the Champagne bottles that I didn't open in 1981 when I heard that War... HOWARD DEUTSCH You never know. If I tell you the champagne bottles that I didn't open in 1981 when I heard that War... HOWARD DEUTSCH We've heard this before, ... 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed. FRED UPTON They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that. NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF [The lobster vendor was one of two new seafood businesses that set up shop on the roadway between th... JAMES WRIGHT That audience was absolutely crazy. And I knew they would be. There had never been anything like tha... TONY RICE "Always love people for who they are, not for whom you like them to be." ~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN They couldn't miss. They really had us nervous there the way they were shooting. We tightened things... MICHAEL TVEIDT I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agr... JOSS WHEDON
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