heard quotes

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 40:21.

Oon ere it herde, at tother out it went.

- Geoffrey Chaucer
c.1385  Troilus and Criseyde, bk.4, l.434.

This particularly rapid unintelligible patter Isn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Ruddigore, act 2.

Mr Wordsworth'sgeniusisa pure emanationofthe Spirit ofthe Age.Had helived inanyother period of the world, he would never have been heard of.

-William Hazlitt
  Spirit of the Age,'Mr Wordsworth'.

I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain.We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now fora long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and thethings that were glorious had no gloryand the sacrifices were like the stock-yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

- Ernest Millar Hemingway
  Frederic Henry.  A Farewell to  Arms, ch.27.

   My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But that he means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, than is Man? to whose creation All things are in decay.

- George Herbert
'Man', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet.

- Al pseudonym of  AsaYoelson Jolson
   Title of a song, allegedly taken from an earlier impromptu remark in a cafe   in which  Jolson was performing. It is popularly recognized as a line from The Jazz Singer (screenplay by Alfred Cohn), the first major film with sound.

The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. 450

- Ben Jonson
Of Francis Bacon. Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published1640).

It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the last civilization will not be heard above the din.

- Sir Herbert Edward Read
  Quoted in Hoggart andJohnston, An Idea of Europe (1987), 'Pyramids and Planes'.

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.8, l.309^11.

The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

-Thornton Niven Wilder
  In the NewYorkTimes, 6 Nov.