Hearing

Famous quotes containing the word hearing:

    “Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,
    The ear more quick of apprehension makes;
    Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense
    It pays the hearing double recompense.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “To-night she will spread her brown hair on his pillow,
    But I shall be hearing the harsh cries of wild fowl.”
    —Patrick MacDonogh (1902–1961)

    “I used to be angry all the time and I’d sit there weaving my anger. Now I’m not angry. I sit there hearing the sounds outside, the sounds in the room, the sounds of the treadles and heddles—a music of my own making.”
    —Bhakti Ziek (b. c. 1946)