Ear Quotes
1176 quotes by 873 authors
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Let your invocation be the all-embracing Name, which is Allah, Allah, Allah, or if you so wish, Huwa, Huwa, Huwa; and do not violate this…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so…
— Pharoahe Monch
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When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on…
— William Shakespeare
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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a…
— Walter Savage Landor
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The sight of the eye, the hearing of the ear, the touch of the hand may each and all be deceived, but the instructions of…
— Moses Thatcher
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I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back…
— Cecil Beaton
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Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees,…
— John Donne
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Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice,…
— Benedict of Nursia
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I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.
— Brian Setzer
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People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the…
— Martin Luther
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Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition…
— Igor Stravinsky
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Revelation need not all come at once. It may be incremental. 'Saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon…
— Russell M. Nelson
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Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pixels, texting, ear buds, Twittering, online social networking, and potentially addictive uses of media and…
— David A. Bednar
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With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short,…
— Karl Barth
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We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.
— Robert Hunter
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I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
— Carl Hiaasen
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The characteristics of a good musician can be summarized as follows: 1. A well-trained ear. 2. A well-trained intelligence. 3. A well-trained heart. 4. A…
— Zoltan Kodaly
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is…
— Zhuangzi
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