Ears famous quotes
04-09-2025
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
-- Abba Eban -
What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
-- Abraham Verghese -
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.
-- Abraham Verghese -
I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
-- Adele -
You must lend an ear today, because we are the leaders of tomorrow
-- Adora Svitak -
Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.
-- Aeschines -
Our responsibility is to get God's word to their ears. Only God can get the word from their ears to their heart.
-- Albert Mohler -
Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution....This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.
-- Alexander Blok -
Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
-- Alexander Pope -
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
-- Alexander Pope -
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
-- Alexander Smith -
We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate.
-- Allan Haines Loughead -
I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.
-- Amanda Holden -
I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies.
-- Amanda McBroom -
Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
-- Amity Shlaes -
The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.
-- Amy Clampitt -
ahhhh...organic and rich like good soil... makes me want to listen and hear it grow. the songs are honest and dimensional. it's music to my ears.
-- Amy Ray -
my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.
-- Ana Castillo -
Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.
-- Andrei Gromyko -
The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
-- Anish Kapoor -
Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
-- Ann Voskamp -
what red lips you have," he said in her ear. Did she dare say it? "All the better to kiss you with, my dear," she replied. And then their lips met.
-- Annette Curtis Klause -
Your ears will always lead you right, but you must know why.
-- Anton Webern -
My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
-- Arnold Schoenberg -
It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.
-- Art Blakey -
Court... a place where they dispense with justice.
-- Arthur Cheney Train -
What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet.
-- Astor Piazzolla -
The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.
-- Audra McDonald -
Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.
-- Basil Bunting -
You live your life between your ears.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell -
Touch her,†he said in Scott’s ear, his voice low and threatening, “and it’ll be the biggest regret of your life.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!
-- Ben Affleck -
I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.
-- Ben Crenshaw -
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
-- Ben Jonson -
Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
-- Bernard Malamud -
The paramedic whispered in my ear 'God will never leave you or forsake you.'
-- Bethany Hamilton -
That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.
-- Bill Cosby -
If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
-- Bill Hybels -
Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
-- Bill Hybels -
On TV you can, you know you can cram, you know, 30 people into a closet and have an orgy, and then they can all shoot up, and everybody has cigarettes in their nostrils and their ears. They don't care. So yeah, television is amazing right now.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
-- Blaise Pascal -
The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.
-- Bob Hicok -
Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.
-- Bob McDonnell -
The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
-- Boris Pasternak -
Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.
-- Brandon Sanderson -
Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.
-- Brian Jacques -
Well, the real sex organ is between the ears, not between the legs
-- Brian Molko -
I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.
-- Brian Setzer -
Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
-- Brian Tracy -
Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.
-- Britt Ekland -
It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear
-- Bruce Springsteen -
Put your ear to the sky and listen my darling, everything whispers I love you.
-- Buddy Wakefield -
Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.
-- C.D. Payne -
She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots were a problem when I was about to be dead, I didn’t know, but the idea completely grossed me out. “In the womb I heard you die, for no one lives when a banshee cries.†I wasn’t just going to die. I was going to be rhymed to death. That simply wasn’t fair.
-- C.E. Murphy -
Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?
-- Calvin Trillin -
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
-- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -
Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
-- Carly Simon -
I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
-- Cate Blanchett -
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
-- Cato the Elder -
I love him," I said, but even to my own ears I didn't sound happy about it.
-- Charlaine Harris -
We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.
-- Charles Darwin -
If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.
-- Charles Dickens -
Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
-- Charles Lamb -
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
-- Charles Lamb -
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
-- Charley Pride -
Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.
-- Charlotte Mew -
Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.
-- Chaz Bono -
I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.
-- Chief Joseph -
In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.
-- Chris Cleave -
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
-- Chris Cleave -
Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem.
-- Chris Martin -
I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
-- Chris Martin -
My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.
-- Chrisette Michele -
I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.
-- Christine McVie -
The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.
-- Christopher Augustine Reynolds -
You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
-- Chuck Berry -
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
-- Clarence Darrow -
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.
-- Cornelia Funke -
The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.
-- Criss Jami -
Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before.
-- D. J. Grothe -
Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.
-- Daniel Okrent -
Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.
-- Danielle Trussoni -
I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.
-- Dave Attell -
Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.
-- David Abram -
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so obvious to our oral [storytelling] ancestors. Weve lost our ear for the music of language -- for the rhythmic, melodic layer of speech by which earthly things overhear us.
-- David Abram -
One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.
-- David Anthony Durham
