Unheard Quotations

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.

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

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.

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.

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else

Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

Look what we've accomplished so far this year. We're pretty much filling the stadium every night with a team that has only won two games. This is pretty much unheard of in the CFL. This is a sign of the completion of the initial phase of this project . . . The fact David can step out this early is a huge compliment to what he has achieved.

We're continuing to monitor the dealer orders. It wouldn't be unheard of if we were to make a change, but at this point in time, nothing has changed yet.

Mayweather should have been disqualified. The fighter had a third man in the ring. That is unheard of. The third man was chasing my fighter around. No matter how you look at it the fighter is disqualified.

Moving the Cleveland Browns was just unheard of,

I don't believe we're an undisciplined team. Obviously we were in the wrong place in the wrong times in critical situations. I mean, 16 penalties for 155 yards - that's unheard of. It's unbelievable.

Having this kind of concentration of musical talent in the city over one weekend is completely unheard of.

Having two triples in one inning is something that is unheard of in my time with the team. Tyler just had a phenomenal game.

He did it in nine months, ... That is unheard of. For most people in Cape May, it takes three years to get past the planning board.

I am a product of technology. We now have cameras available to the consumer that were of the same caliber in observatories only 10 years ago, ... Now amateurs can have a camera aperture unheard of 10, 20 years ago. An amateur can now do what scientists were doing five years ago.

I'm a graduate of Hoover, I've been an assistant or head coach the last nine years and I have never seen a Hoover team hold an opponent to two single-digit quarters ? nine points or less ? and still be down at halftime. That just is unheard of.

He's always been a good offensive player. Last year we had more offensive guys. This year he's shooting the ball extremely well. That's unheard of. He's having a great season.

Me kicking back and relaxing with an O-State guy, that used to be unheard of. But now, we're on common ground.

I was told not to go to Madison Square Garden anymore and many of these things are unheard of if you're in wrestling. They blackballed me out of the company.

It is (a huge jump), but it's not unheard of.

I think we had three defensive rebounds in the first half, which is unheard of. We had (41) points at halftime, so we were on pace offensively. Obviously, though, the whole key was defense and a lot of easy, open looks for them. I'm sure it's going to be ugly on film.

It is absolutely unheard of for a court to restrict publication of information except for in issues of clear national security.

It certainly isn't unheard of, or outside the realm of possibility.

We know it infects cats - that's unheard of. Cats do not get influenza.

We know that that's not acceptable down here. A three-loss season, hey, that's great for some teams. But guys do come back here and they're like, 'Nah, that didn't cut it last year, man.' They don't expect us to lose three games. I really think guys from other schools don't expect us to lose three games. It's really unheard of down here, especially in the last four or five years. We're looking forward to stopping that trend.

Winter storms such as this are not unheard of but this one was severe.

That's unheard of, to shoot that kind of percentage.

We played great defense. We held Gonzaga to 64 points. That's unheard of.

We are the only two that ever talked all the way through batting practice. That is unheard of.

We had two albums out and we had 4-5 hits off of those two albums. That was pretty much unheard of at the time since the Beatles.

The fact that plaintiffs are using a court order to go into people's homes and collect data for them is unheard of. This is a company that has not been found guilty of doing anything wrong.

We planned on stopping (subscriptions) on the Monday after opening weekend, ... But we shut it off on Aug. 23. We are at 62 percent. That's insane - it's unheard of for us.

We're just a little town that did things that were unheard of at the time.

We're filling a little bit of a niche. It's tough to sell 40,000 (concert) tickets in a stadium. Most of the (amphitheaters) do 16,000 to 18,000, and we're in the 20,000-plus range. We can do a concert on a Friday night and a soccer game on Saturday. That's unheard of for stadium venues.

There have been little donations or grants and no sugar daddies. That's virtually unheard of in the theater business.

What we are doing is unheard of in the history of recovery operations. I searched for space shuttle debris for 17 days, but I've never searched house to house in a city this size.

There are a lot of swings I haven't taken, but I get to start over and start fresh. If I have some soreness, and I could have some setbacks along the way, that's not unheard of. But I'm not afraid of that.

What they are doing in college football is unheard of, offensively, ... It's amazing.

To separate yourself from a bunch of other very, very good players -- more than likely playing some really good golf -- is going to be very difficult. What Tiger did at Pebble Beach a few years back was unheard of.

Even radar was unheard of when I first went into the service. Then suddenly, they started putting bedsprings up on the tops of ships.

A time gap of 50 seconds for your one through seven runners is unheard of. It's a tribute to how well they work as a team. Although it's an individual sport, they really buy into the team aspect.

That's just unheard of. I've never seen anything like that before.

As a setup guy, if people are talking to you, obviously you did something bad. Otherwise you go unheard of. I guess that is a good thing.

A lot of people go unheard of, and then everyone says, 'Wow, he's a really good player. Sometimes it's just about getting those opportunities. I'm pretty sure opponents know about me now, but you still have to worry about Moose on the other side. You still have to worry about the running game, and with Rex throwing the ball, he's liable to throw it anywhere, anytime. You can't focus on one particular guy.

There's no way you think you're going to lose that with 2.1 seconds to go. You think the game's over. The unheard of situation happened. ... What's important at this point is we don't take a nosedive. I've seen teams in this situation not recover from it. It's fine to grieve tonight. I'm going to grieve.

The valley's office vacancy rates decreased by 4 percentage points from a year ago, an unheard of drop in such a short period of time. The drop in net absorption in the first quarter is largely the result of a lack of quality office space, not an indication of weak demand.

A flat fee of $20 a month is unheard of.

A flat fee of $20 a month is unheard of. With this annuity, you don't have the burden of the mortality and expense charge. Over time, this is a huge advantage.

You play 82 games, and it's unheard of that you win every game, but this is one we should have had,

This is the first time I've ever seen or heard that a developer wants to do the show back to back. And the builders wanted to be in on it again. That's unheard of.

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.

If I win a championship, I?m pleased. But If I don?t win an NCAA championship, I?m not pleased ? regardless of how well I?m doing. It is to make history out there. Two championships in four years? In this day and age, that?s unheard of.

In the South there seems to be two seasons where tornadoes mostly occur: in the late fall and then sometimes in the late winter into early spring. We don't get as many down this close to the Gulf Coast as they do more inland, but it's not unheard of.

I'm not sure even what happened between her and the president, but it's not unheard of for individuals who have had these kinds of sexual encounters to continue relationships or to continue working relationships with the individuals who have done these things to them,

The bigger the game, the bigger he played. I mean, come on, shutting out a team like Gaither twice during the playoffs? That's almost unheard of.

It's totally unheard of in today's world, with all the safeguards we have on these underground storage tanks and the records we require to keep. That it could go on this long has us baffled.

You throw just one or two streaming media feeds into the mix and all of a sudden you're bumping up against your bandwidth limitations. In a medium-sized company it's not unheard of for one person who's streaming a video feed to affect network performance by 20 or 30 percent.

That's almost unheard of for a network that's only been on-air for a few months. The bottom line is that we're getting good ratings, which means people are watching.

I like to give the fans advice, so what I have been doing is working with the fans directly through e-mail, which is really unheard of.

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.

In the NFL, 300 yards rushing, that is unheard of. You look in college and you see those games. I don't know how often that happens in the NFL, but I know it's rare. That's a huge, huge thing. It's funny, we were in the huddle before Mo (Morris) broke off that long 49-yard run, and I said, 'Hey, let's get Mo a hundred, let's get Mo a hundred.' And he said, 'Hey, I'm running behind you guys.' He busted out through there and it was nice to see. I was trying to catch him, but I was tired.

I haven't really thought that far ahead, but if I end up getting on the ice against him, that would be pretty unbelievable. Playing against two of your brothers in the same year is kind of unheard of.

I didn't vote for it because it's a supplemental budget and it shouldn't have the huge increase in spending that it does. $500 million in new spending is unheard of in supplemental budget. It's unreal.

Clearly, what he did at D.M.I. was to prepare for a mayoral run, and to sound out themes of a mayoral run, ... That's not unheard of, for people to find a sinecure while seeking public office.

It's what needs to be done. Everyone agreed. I am not aware that we have ever moved tracks for the purpose of crossing safety. Its not unheard of for us to move tracks, but its usually in conjunction with some other project.

It just shows a lot about our league - it's one of the best leagues around. To have two teams win section championships is pretty unheard of.

It was political suicide. That was unheard of in Dallas politics. I will always admire her for taking that stance.

The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.

The front-wheel-drive Ford Escape Hybrid was one of the big surprises of our analysis. It gets between 31 and 36 miles per gallon, which is unheard for a vehicle of its size and utility. It has a four-cylinder engine but gives drivers nearly the power of a six-cylinder engine without hurting their wallet. And the industry is finding that all hybrids are proving to be well engineered and therefore allow owners to maintain a very low Cost of Ownership.

The courage of exploring myself was nothing compared to the courage of actually doing the EMT course, ... As a writer, the concept of self-revelation is not new. The problem was getting through the depression and anxiety and doing something unheard of for me: becoming an EMT. Writing about self-revelation is gravy.

The doubles point is always big. To come back from that far down it's unheard of for fast indoor tennis.

The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct.

A concert like this for four bucks is unheard of. These guys usually get $20 to $40 for tickets.

For a company with great profitability and a near monopoly, it would certainly not be unheard of to pay two to three times the growth rate. So paying 25 times earnings for one of the strongest technology companies with an awesome franchise is fair.

It just didn't make any sense to me. I've never played, managed or coached a game like that. To see a big league game like that is unheard of. I've never seen anything like that. I hope I don't see it again.

It's not unheard of to wait for a news peg. It's not unusual to discover the existence of something and not know the context of it until later.

It's not like the maturity of a basketball or football player who learns systems and things like that. Shooters do progress during school, but if they come in as good shooters they can immediately be a top-five shooter, and that's not unheard of at all.

It's a lack of consistency that's really been bothering our team this year, ... It's not a lack of effort, it's not attitude. ... To be at Michigan and to be 3-3 is really unheard of. It makes you question yourself: 'Am I doing the right things?'

That is almost impossible to do. They did in the tournament and that is just phenomenal. They showed tremendous heart and that coming from freshmen is just unheard of.

This price for RAID storage has been unheard of and brings a new level of data protection at a low price.

You don't see that very often. Defensively, we came out the way we wanted. To hold them in the 20s is unheard in arena football.

To have six or seven Division-I prospects, that's unheard of, even in 5A football. This football game is about competing. That's all I expect my kids to do.

It is unheard of for us. But in eight of those matches, we have been very competitive.

It is unheard of that there should still be technical problems after such a long time.

It's a bit of a headache, but we know it's got to happen. Capitol fires certainly aren't unheard of in North Dakota.

It was the first jalapeno martini I ever had. He also served a chocolate martini. They were unheard of at that time. Everybody was serving wine.

It's kind of unheard of. People don't really think people from Hawaii can skate, but we're getting better.

They're shooting almost 40 percent. That in itself is remarkable, unheard of. It converts to a lot of points. And to have to recycle our team to find a way to match up against them is not easy. It's not conventional.

I don't particularly like it. I don't think there's any level where you have a situation where you have to wait a week later. That's unheard of. But you play the hand you're dealt.

He played unbelievably and picked up a huge win for us. It is almost unheard of for a number seven player to step in for a number one player and win.

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.

What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.

Constant talkers are unheard.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.

Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.