Ears famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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One and all We lend an ear-nay, Science takes thereto- Encourages the meanest who has racked Nature until he gains from her some fact, To state what truth is from his point of view, Mere pin-point though it be: since many such Conduce to make a whole, she bids our friend Come forward unabashed and haply lend His little life-experience to our much Of modern knowledge.
-- Robert Browning -
But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.
-- Robert Byron -
Use your ears to record and your eyes to video.
-- Robert Fripp -
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
-- Robert Frost -
It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.
-- Robert Hunter -
We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.
-- Robert James Graves -
Whenever we begin to feel as if we can no longer go on, HOPE whispers in our ear to remind us that we are strong.
-- Robert M. Hensel -
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
-- Robert Owen -
Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!
-- Robert Stack -
If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.
-- Robert Towne -
Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative.
-- Roy Sekoff -
Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.
-- Rumi -
Make everything in you an ear, each atom of your being, and you will hear at every moment what the Source is whispering to you...you are -we all are-the beloved of the beloved, and in every moment, in every event of your life , the Beloved is whispering to you exactly what you need to hear and know. Who can ever explain this miracle? It simply is.
-- Rumi -
What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.
-- Russell Baker -
Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.
-- S. J. Perelman -
No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.
-- Samantha Power -
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
-- Samuel Daniel -
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
-- Samuel Lover -
Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near.
-- Samuel Rogers -
Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.
-- Sara Gruen -
I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:
-- Sara Gruen -
Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.
-- Sara Shepard -
I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I'd been able to.
-- Sarah Dessen -
But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.
-- Sarah Dessen -
You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.
-- Sarah Dessen -
Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.
-- Sarah J. Maas -
If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.
-- Sarah Paulson -
One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ***** sliding into second.
-- Satchel Paige -
More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry
-- Saul Williams -
Because I have no boobs. My ears stand out, and I have freckles all over me. (Grace) Boobs? (Julian) Breasts. (Grace) You have very nice breasts. (Julian) Thanks. What about you? (Grace) I have no breasts. (Julian)
-- Sherrilyn Kenyon -
I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.
-- Sheryl Lee -
If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
-- Sigmund Freud -
This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.
-- Sir John Davies -
How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.
-- Smith Wigglesworth -
I go out on stage, and my intention is to make the first four rows bleed from their ears.
-- Sonny Sharrock -
Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear
-- St. Vincent -
Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.
-- St. Vincent -
To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.
-- St. Vincent -
...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.
-- Stanley Kunitz -
I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.
-- Stephanie Beacham -
If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.
-- Stephen Fry -
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
-- Stephen King -
Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you.
-- Steve Carell -
My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.
-- Steve Cropper -
Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.
-- Steven Curtis Chapman -
What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment?
-- Steven V. Roberts -
Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.
-- Steven Wright -
A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.
-- Svetlana Alliluyeva -
Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
-- Sydney Banks -
He stuck the pencil over his ear, looking unconvinced. "Mmm. What position would you be the most comfortable for you?" I couldn't say aloud the answers that popped into my head at that question, but the flush that spread across my face like wildfire gave me away. He caught his lower lip in his teeth, and I was sure it was to contain a laugh. Most comfortable position? What about with my head stuck under a pillow?
-- Tammara Webber -
I'm going to arrange you, if that's okay?" I swallowed. "Uh... sure." My hands were clutched to my ribcage, my shoulders hunched almost to my ears. What, this isn't how you want me positioned?
-- Tammara Webber -
The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me.
-- Ted Hughes -
There's this bubblegum pop thing which is prevalent now that we haven't had before. People's ears are slightly de-tuned; they've been exposed to this weird synthetic, implausibly upbeat, Mickey Mouse stuff which I think is just weird; it's not really a human sound.
-- Teddy Thompson -
His lips nuzzled her ear. “Whether you go or stay, I will love you until I die,†he whispered.
-- Teresa Medeiros -
Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.
-- Terri Farley -
Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.
-- Thelonious Monk -
The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.
-- Theodore Roethke -
When no food is given to the ear,Then let a little be given to the stomach.
-- Thiruvalluvar -
Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.
-- Thomas Adams -
Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.
-- Thomas Beecham -
He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.
-- Thomas Brooks -
I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ever ear heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries.
-- Thomas de Quincey -
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
-- Thomas Hardy -
I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.
-- Tim Winton -
Nikolai stroked her cheek, then wrapped her in his embrace. “You’re safe,†he said tenderly beside her ear. “I’ve got you, and I’m going to keep you safe.
-- Tina St. John -
I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.
-- Tug McGraw -
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
-- Victoria Abril -
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
-- Vikram Seth -
I've always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16.
-- Vinnie Jones -
Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
-- Walt Whitman -
And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
-- Walter Isaacson -
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
-- Walter Lippmann -
I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
-- Walter Matthau -
Whereever you end up;" Jack whispered into my ear."I wish you clear skies. Always
-- Wendy Mass -
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.
-- Wilfred Burchett -
Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns....
-- William Butler Yeats -
My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.
-- William Christopher Handy -
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
-- William Cowper -
Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
-- William Jennings Bryan -
He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
-- William Shakespeare -
I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely.
-- William Shakespeare -
An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.
-- William Stafford -
People read with their ears, whether they know it or not,
-- William Zinsser -
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
-- Winston Churchill -
Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure
-- Witold Rybczynski -
To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the other ... which comes back to reading poetry aloud ...
-- Yvor Winters -
Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.
-- Zig Ziglar -
I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.
-- Alasdair MacLean -
I saw this wide-eyed girl with big ears and a pink nose who's too excited. I wanted that part of myself to sing lead.
-- Caroline Polachek -
My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.
-- Charlemagne Palestine -
Mary's [Hamill] working from an outsider perspective and I'm working from an insider-outside perspective. In this case, it will bring an added dimension to the visual aspects of the work. Also the processes and approaches that I'm thinking are about learning. I'm playing it by ear to experiment and see what happens.
-- Chath Piersath
