Ear Quotes

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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
The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken to your heart… — William Howard Taft
Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them… — Unknown Author
The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it. — Barry Eisler
God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had been… — John Taylor Gatto
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact,… — Learned Hand
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor… — Samuel Johnson
Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers… — William Shakespeare
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves… — Mark Twain
Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his… — Bob Dylan
Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness… — Marin Mersenne
Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear… — Rudolf Steiner
Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice... — Khalil Gibran
Teaching unsupported by grace may enter our ears, but it never reaches the heart. When God's grace does touch our innermost minds to bring understanding,… — Isidore of Seville
The Democrats just want to ram it down my ear with a victory — George H. W. Bush
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old… — Homer
You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that… — Joyce DiDonato
All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is… — Steve Vai
Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no… — Charlotte Bronte
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear. — John Updike

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