Ear Quotes

1176 quotes by 873 authors

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf… — James M. Barrie
Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear. — Mason Cooley
The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to… — Samuel Johnson
We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking. — Jean-Philippe Rameau
The best way to thaw a frozen turkey? Blow in it's ear. — Johnny Carson
Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause. — Isaac Barrow
Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate. — Francois Rabelais
For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they… — Hans Cloos
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not… — Philip Warren Anderson
To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who… — Robert C. Murphy
When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result… — Anthony de Mello
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals… — Nadia Boulanger
The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and… — Bettina Skrzypczak
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. — Maya Angelou
Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in… — Newton Arvin
Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one… — Naomi Mitchison
For they are yet ear-kissing arguments. — William Shakespeare
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. — Barbara Tuchman
The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings… — Stephen King

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