Ears famous quotes

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.
-- Lydia M. Child

#Father #Ears #Music Is

It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant scum. Now, understandably, it's nearly everybody.
-- Lynne Truss

#Expression #People #Ears

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
-- Madeleine Peyroux

#Father #Ears #Ravel

The ears are the last feature to age.
-- Malcolm De Chazal

#Age #Ears #Lasts

Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge

#Drug #Ears #Overcoming

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Ears #Whispering #Radio

There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.
-- Marc Cherry

#Eye #Wind #Ears

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
-- Marco Polo

#Voice #Stories #Ears

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.
-- Margaret Mitchell

#Memories #Fall #Ears

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.
-- Margaret Oliphant

#Weakness #Ears #Assumption

What [Tulio Serafin] said that impressed me was: "When one wants to find a gesture, when you want to find how to act on stage, all you have to do is listen to the music. The composer has already seen to that." If you take the trouble to really listen with your soul and with your ears - and I say soul and ears because the mind must work, but not too much also - you will find every gesture there. And it is all true, you know.
-- Maria Callas

#Soul #Mind #Ears

Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.
-- Marin Mersenne

#Ears #Littles #Bitterness

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
-- Mario Batali

#Media #Ears #Tails

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.
-- Mark Antony

#Loss #Ears #Hearing Loss

Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder.
-- Mark Potok

#Hate #Ears #Speech

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.
-- Marlee Matlin

#Mind #Ears #Handicaps

Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.
-- Marlo Thomas

#Ambition #Ears #Sticks

Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.
-- Mary Ann Shaffer

#Grease #Ears #Spots

This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.
-- Mary Matalin

#Cutting #Ears #Politics

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu

#Men #Ears #May

I walked in on my folks doing it doggy style less than four hours ago." "Waitress!" Jonas screamed, clicking his fingers madly. "Bring two!" then, more quietly,"You want a neck massage? A bedtime story? A bullet in the ear?
-- MaryJanice Davidson

#Two #Style #Ears

I once gave a girl a bloody fake ear in a Tiffany jewelry box with a letter that said, “will you Gogh to prom with me?
-- Matthew Gray Gubler

#Girl #Fake #Ears

She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.
-- Maud Hart Lovelace

#Hair #Library #Ears

Scripture often reminds us that it's not enough to have ears - we must use them.
-- Max Lucado

#Scripture #Use #Ears

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
-- Maya Angelou

#Friendship #Ears

I just want to let you know that when I look into my future, I see nothing but you.” That’s what Chaz had whispered in my ear at some point during the wedding last night. Then he’d whispered. “And you’re not even wearing Spanx.
-- Meg Cabot

#Night #Looks #Ears

I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.
-- Megan Hart

#Men #Ears #Legs

A single ear of corn in a large field is as strange as a single world in infinite space.
-- Metrodorus of Chios

#Space #Ears #World

As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.
-- Michael Connelly

#Jobs #Ears #Capture

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.
-- Michael Cunningham

#Fiction #Delight #Ears

A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.
-- Michael Foot

#Eye #Mind #Ears

There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.
-- Mildred D. Taylor

#Gossip #Tongue #Ears

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.
-- Minoru Yamasaki

#World #Ears #Building

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.
-- Miroslav Vitous

#Player #Listening #Ears

On this site we're going to build an Eye and Ear Hospital. This is going to be a sight for sore eyes.
-- Morrie Ryskind

#Eye #Sight #Ears

The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.
-- Nadia Boulanger

#Inspiration #Order #Ears

Nicole was always there with her door open, her arms open, her ears open - just what you need.
-- Naomi Watts

#Friendship #Doors #Ears

Even the ears must dance.
-- Natalia Makarova

#Dance #Ears

I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world
-- Natalie Portman

#Nice #Ears #World

Temptation hath a music for all ears.
-- Nathaniel Parker Willis

#Temptation #Ears

The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.
-- Nathaniel Parker Willis

#Men #Blood #Ears

You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?
-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Love You #Believe #Ears

The more that you act on your intuition fearlessly, the more your intuition will serve you. Intuition is the ear of the soul.
-- Neale Donald Walsch

#Soul #Intuition #Ears

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.
-- Niall Williams

#Rivers #Over You #Ears

The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler

#Eye #Fading #Ears

Nana glanced at Ben. "I think your mom has catepillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.
-- Nicholas Sparks

#Mom #Thinking #Ears

As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by it. To some people who have ears to hear, it's a delightful, refreshing change. But to most of the public, it's a load of homemade-sounding nonsense.
-- Nick Lowe

#People #Records #Ears

... God gave you just one mouth but He gave you two ears, so you should listen twice as much as you speak
-- Nick Vujicic

#Two #Ears #Mouths

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
-- Nina Fedoroff

#Advice #Ears #Influence

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.
-- Noel Gallagher

#Ears #Great Music #Beholder

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Purses #Ears #Way

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
-- Octavio Paz

#Eye #Poetry #Ears

The only way I'll really smile is if you cut me ear to ear.
-- Oliver Sykes

#Cutting #Way #Ears

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Running #Ears

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
-- Orson Scott Card

#Eye #His Eyes #Ears

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.
-- Orson Welles

#Age #Genius #Ears

To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Eye #Men #Ears

God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
-- Oswald Chambers

#Ears #Language #Speak

God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.
-- Oswald Chambers

#Spiritual #Attitude #Ears

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
-- Ouida

#Song #Heart #Ears

Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.
-- P. W. Botha

#Ideas #Ears

Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.
-- Paavo Haavikko

#Over You #Ears #Benches

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
-- Patrick Carney

#Writing #Ears #Melody

I can't hear what Jeremy says because my ears are blocked with my two Stanley Cup Rings.
-- Patrick Roy

#Hockey #Two #Ears

I could not hear what they say about me, my 2 Stanley Cup rings were stuffed in my ears.
-- Patrick Roy

#Hockey #Cups #Ears

What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.
-- Paul A. Offit

#Vaccines #Dollars #Ears

With ADD, you’re curious. You’re eyes believe what they see. Your ears believe what others say. I learned to trust my eyes.
-- Paul Orfalea

#Believe #Eye #Ears

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears
-- Pauline Oliveros

#Feet #Ears #Walks

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
-- Pericles

#Ears #Arguing #Difficult

I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.
-- Pete Seeger

#Song #People #Ears

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
-- Peter De Vries

#Brain #Ears #Devices

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.
-- Peter Medawar

#Cutting #Luck #Ears

The Unicorn Sonata ... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.
-- Peter S. Beagle

#Home #Eye #Ears

We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear
-- Peter Weiss

#Favour #Ears #Breathe

... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
-- Phyllis Bottome

#Hunters #Ears #Grows

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.
-- Pietro Aretino

#Ears #Honey #Milk

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.
-- Pietro Aretino

#Ears #Flattery #Gallant

We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.
-- Pope Benedict XVI

#Catholic #Able #Ears

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
-- Quintilian

#Inspirational #Mind #Ears

We cannot close our ears; we have no ear lids!
-- R. Murray Schafer

#Ears

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Eye #Age #Ears

I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.
-- Rachael Taylor

#Accessories #Ears #Jewelry

I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.
-- Rachel Nichols

#Football #Player #Ears

Then strong, warm arms wrapped around me from behind. "I've got you," Tod whispered in my ear.
-- Rachel Vincent

#Strong #Ears #Arms

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
-- Ralph Ellison

#Play #Style #Ears

Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.
-- Ray Bradbury

#Play #Tyranny Of The Majority #Ears

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Eye #Ears #Refuse

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.
-- Reif Larsen

#Mean #Listening #Ears

The one thing I never did, I was never strict in my techniques. I might have pretended in the past at times that I did work serially, or something like that, but I never did, it was always I let my ear tell me what to do.
-- Richard Meale

#Past #Ears #Might

I had great difficulties learning to play initially because I could not think rhythmically properly, although it's an even-paced rhythm, I was not phrasing properly, I was too Western. It took me a while to learn to think in needed form, and the only way I could learn was just by ear.
-- Richard Meale

#Thinking #Play #Ears

Happy Birthday." Adrian came to a sudden halt. The words were soft and small, spoken tentatively, but easily discerned by vampire ears. Slowly, he turned around and found Jill Mastrano standing shyly before him.
-- Richelle Mead

#Vampire #Ears #Found

Out in the field, you haven't got anyone whispering into your ear saying all sorts of things, you've got to do it yourself.
-- Richie Benaud

#Whispering #Fields #Ears

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.
-- Rita Rudner

#Retirement #Age #Ears

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.
-- Roald Dahl

#Hate #Ears #Whispering

A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?
-- Roald Dahl

#Ears #Littles #Giants

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.
-- Rob Brown

#Ears #Revolution

It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.
-- Rob Sheffield

#Hippie #Oatmeal #Ears

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.
-- Robert Bresson

#Intuition #Done #Ears

When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.
-- Robert Bresson

#Eye #Cutting #Ears

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
-- Robert Browning

#Ears #May #Musician