Ear Quotes

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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently… — Dave Barry
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I… — John Adams
I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink. — Mario Batali
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. — Thomas Beecham
Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left… — Robert Benchley
Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted… — Mary J. Blige
To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation. — Andrea Bocelli
Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart. — William Jennings Bryan
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of… — Leo Buscaglia
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. — Samuel Butler
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. — Maria Callas
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. — Italo Calvino
I don't have a Bluetooth thing on my ear. That bugs me. — Drew Carey
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. — Ray Charles
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of… — Kate Chopin
The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee. — Jean Cocteau
The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right. — Ben Crenshaw
Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should overhear what He… — Samuel Logan Brengle

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