Ear Quotes
1176 quotes by 873 authors
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On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as…
— Lester Piggott
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I remember a time at Yale when my work was being critiqued by Paul Rand. Mr. Rand told me only to use Helvetica as a…
— Kyle Cooper
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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
— Edward Fairfax
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Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians because we are talking when we should be…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.
— Peter Medawar
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What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind belives.
— Harry Houdini
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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…
— Rumi
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There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind.…
— Robert Frost
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For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet.
— Astor Piazzolla
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As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer…
— Luigi Russolo
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Someone should have a record that doesn't have any singing. It's my favorite Miles Davis record. I love hanging out in the summer, in New…
— Craig Finn
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That time of day when the sun hasn’t come up yet, but you can already feel it coming. It’s an elusive warmth, like a subtle…
— Cassia Leo
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Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.
— Eva Figes
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NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
— Abraham Verghese
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There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like, waiting for the…
— Paul Harding
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Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and makes…
— Etienne Gilson
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A single ear of corn in a large field is as strange as a single world in infinite space.
— Metrodorus of Chios
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Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write…
— Leo Ornstein
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The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear…
— Robert Bresson
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