Ears Quotes · Page 36

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

— John Lydon

Vision without execution is like a plane without wings, or Dumbo without ears, it just won't fly.

— Bill Capodagli

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

— Daniel Okrent

Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep…

— Eva Ibbotson

The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.

— Henry David Thoreau

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy

— Groucho Marx

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

— Rob Sheffield

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

— Anais Nin

I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which…

— George Carlin

Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ…

— Tertullian

Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three…

— Michael Faraday

When one chants the holy name of Krishna, Krishna dances on the tongue and one wishes one had thousands of ears and…

— Mukunda Goswami

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into…

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that…

— Mary Caroline Richards

Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Cole grasped a handful of vials and syringes with one hand and dumped them on the island in front of me. They…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its…

— Robert Farrar Capon

Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

very quietly, I heard a voice in my ear.It said, in a weird, cheesy, right-out-of-one-of-my-mother’s-novels way, “Ah. Wemeet again.” I turned my…

— Sarah Dessen

I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that moment will…

— Tracy Letts

There's [in Outcast] so much for my ear, brain and mind and body to gain.

— Eyedea

I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the…

— Julia Leigh

Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to…

— Billy Graham

He who has ears, let him hear. And he who has sight, let him see. He who has life, let him be.

— Nas

It feels weird in our ear holes to hear people worshipping a guy named Ron. We know Rons in our life.

— Sarah Silverman

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play…

— Roger Waters

What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.

— Francis Quarles

Love, indeed, lends a precious seeing to the eye, and hearing to the ear: all sights and sounds are glorified by the…

— Arthur Frederick Saunders

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

— Saul Williams

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.

— Josh Billings

What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears…

— John Piper

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

Keep your eyes open, Fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I'll find you, and then you'll…

— Erin Hunter

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

— Alasdair MacLean

There is so much that goes in to being a good tennis player. It's not just what you can do well on…

— John Isner