#hearing

There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#belly #drop #few #get #going

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#acted #asked #certainly #closely #domestic

Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup. ↗

— Dreama Walker

#family #finding #got #hearing #lineup

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#every #every day #great #great work #hearing

I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up. ↗

— Dennis Wilson

#carl #day #dollar #excited #got

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#depended #focus #hearing #mother #music

We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#confirmed #day #end #end of the day #fair

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#because #bitter #did #died #fact

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. ↗

— Norman Granz

#hearing #jazz #knowing #music #pop

The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#different #feeling #had #hearing #i