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A riot is the language of the unheard. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. -- John Keats
In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of. -- Lee Krasner
For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of. -- Terry Southern
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear . -- Freddie Mercury
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of. -- Julie Walters
Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead. -- Lady Gaga
Riots are the voices of the unheard. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up. -- Mitch Albom
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else -- Barry Gibb
Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. -- Charles Angoff
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. -- Arundhati Roy
Things that are real are given and received in Silence. God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence. -- Meher Baba
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct. -- Seneca the Younger
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. -- John Keats
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones. -- Ludwig von Mises
For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words. -- Milan Kundera
In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven -- Chiara Lubich
I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. -- Martin Luther
When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules. -- Charlotte Bronte
Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of. -- Maurice Sendak
I used to wait tables at Gladstone's, a seafood restaurant, day in and day out. I made some of my best friends there. I taught dance and acting lessons to kids. It was awesome - an outreach program, Voices Unheard. I was a messenger for a couple of months. -- Sufe Bradshaw
In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of. -- Young Jeezy
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else. -- Barry Gibb
Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books. -- Pat Brown
There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away. -- Brownie McGhee
My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time. -- Dr. Dre
If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of. -- Sam Altman
My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school. -- Brian Blessed
My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth. -- Anna Deavere Smith
The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission. -- Rose George
Imagine a government which has delivered double-digit growth rates for over seven years losing an election anywhere on earth. It is unheard of for such a phenomenon to happen. -- Meles Zenawi
I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody. -- Rita Ora
Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of. -- Natalie Dormer
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We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, every bit of money - someone says Stanley Ho, you issue me a check of so much money - we don't give that easy. -- Stanley Ho
One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed. -- Henry Rollins
Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of? -- Kathryn Minshew
I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then. -- Yunjin Kim
I used to own an island in the Seychelles and had a big boat there and one day I came across some Somali pirates who were passing by on their way to re-provision their boat. They didn't even acknowledge me - which is unheard of among sailors - and it was like looking into the eyes of a black mamba. -- Wilbur Smith
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. -- Ben Fountain
Constant talkers are unheard. -- Mason Cooley
Riot is the voice of the unheard. -- Maxine Waters
Nothing is sadder than love left unheard. -- Neil Diamond
Through silence only the good messages go unheard. -- Brian Patten
The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne. -- Sri Aurobindo
Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before. -- Samuel Rogers
The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity. -- Le Corbusier
The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard. -- Khalil Gibran
Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible. -- Daphne Zuniga
All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind. -- Veronica Roth
When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer. -- Joe Meno
What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well? -- Sinclair Lewis
The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know.... -- Khalil Gibran
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on. -- John Keats
I don't think that anything anyone has to say should ever be censored or unheard -- Eminem
Food is love, for my body, wellbeing, and the animals that go unheard every day. -- Margaret Chapman
The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard? -- Peter Elbow
A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous. -- Henry Chester
We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others. -- Amy Tan
In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. -- Hermann Goring
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that. -- Tom Shadyac
It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world. -- William Butler Yeats
I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now. -- Mark McGwire
Remember the unremembered; love the unloved; salute the unsaluted; hear the unheard; do the things which have not been done! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace. -- Cornel West
There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine. -- Peter Singer
We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film. -- Luc Besson
The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct. -- Jacques Ellul
The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life. -- Bill Gates
In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement. -- Malcolm Lowry
We gave [Iran] $1.7 billion in cash, which is unheard of, and we put the money up and we have really nothing to show for it. -- Donald Trump
... feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun... -- John Keats
Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave. -- Isak Dinesen
All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea. -- Nathan Reese Maher
All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea." -- Nathan Reese Maher
Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity. -- Zaha Hadid
The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that. -- Tom Shadyac
A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence. -- Linda Hogan
For the first time on Planet Earth (in 1964 America), a nation was made up of more college students than farmers. An unheard-of 42% of high school graduates sought higher education. -- Rick Perlstein
The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before! -- Samuel Rogers
My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school. -- Brian Blessed
The concept of downsizing so that others might upgrade is biblical, beautiful...and nearly unheard of. We either close the gap or don't take the words of the Bible literally. -- Francis Chan
Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances, Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution. -- Akbar Ganji
But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs. -- Jean M. Auel
The thing that inspires me about Daniel Radcliffe and the thing that I admire the most about him is that he's had a level of fame thrust upon him that's relatively unheard of. -- Matthew Lewis
Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It's not so much, what's the point? It's more like, what's the difference? -- Mitch Albom
We live in a world of what have you done for me lately. We don't remember the day before sometimes. Think back five, six, years ago what he was doing. It's unheard of. -- Kevin Durant
To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence. -- Anna Kavan
By harmony all phenomena are formed and sustained. There is a scientific statement to the effect that this earth is a vast harmonic wave system that is built and sustained by unheard music. -- Corinne Heline
We often leave the most precious personal direction of the Spirit unheard because we do not record and respond to the first promptings that come to us when the Lord chooses to direct us. -- Richard G. Scott
First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol. -- John Milton
Wanderlust is not unheard of in our kind; it comes upon us now and then. When you can live forever, staying in one place can come to seem a dull prison after many, many years. -- Cassandra Clare
In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically. -- Ernst Hanfstaengl

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