Ears Quotes · Page 37

When I practice there's a bunch of noise going on, people will talk, so I don't really have mouse ears for the…

— Xander Schauffele

I feel very fortunate to have my ears. I'd share them with everybody but I only have two to go around.

— Ronnie Montrose

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

— Jeff Tweedy

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

— Robert Bresson

Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I…

— Gillian Jacobs

Most of sex is psychological - most of it is between our ears and not between our legs.

— Joy Browne

My wife says 90% of sex occurs between the ears. But I need a girl who can blow more just my mind.

— Rodney Dangerfield

The danger comes in, in my opinion, when you believe someone because they're the leader of your church and supposedly they have…

— George Ratliff

The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on…

— Beth Moore

Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could…

— S. Jay Olshansky

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't…

— James Victore

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you…

— Mick Taylor

From the beginning moments of life, the urges for each of us to become a self in the world are there--in the…

— Louise J. Kaplan

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come…

— William E. Gladstone

so long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows…

— Anne Roe

I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to…

— Italo Calvino

So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving…

— John Milton

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and…

— Anonymous

Dovewing felt bone-weary from her ears to the tip of her tail. Just because she had better hearing, sharper senses than any…

— Anonymous

I sat down to think things over a bit. While I was sitting there, a little kid about eleven or twelve years-old…

— Carl Panzram

I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby…

— Thomas Szasz

The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He…

— Michael Ondaatje

The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common…

— Joanna Baillie

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

— Epictetus

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

— P. W. Botha

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

— Anonymous

One hundred ten thousand ears in this ballpark, and he's got to hit my ear.

— Don Zimmer

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.

— Cinda Williams Chima

So, this is a rabbit, I thought. He sort of looks like Chester, only he's got longer ears and a shorter tail.…

— James Howe

Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!

— Robert Stack

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

— Walter Scott

The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or…

— William Wordsworth

“there's something wrong with my ears I can't shut them like I can shut my eyes”

— Henry Hoke

I just want to touch people's ears. I want to touch people's lives. I want to give them something they can release…

— Richard Patrick

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

— Benjamin Franklin

Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

— Lionel Shriver

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

— Leo Ornstein

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

— Carly Simon