Ear Quotes

1176 quotes by 873 authors

I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet. — John M. Corse
When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he… — Wally Schirra
When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging… — Lisa See
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of… — Aristotle Onassis
What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear? — Abraham Verghese
The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately — Anish Kapoor
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the… — Michael Cunningham
I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the… — Thomas de Quincey
I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story:… — Marco Polo
With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of… — Jonathan Ive
Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder. — Mark Potok
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others… — Isocrates
We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at… — Allan Haines Loughead
Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with… — William Shakespeare
The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the… — Harold Innis
Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on the other hand,… — Yanni
I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have… — Mick Taylor
My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I… — Dick Dale
Around the edge of the crowd was a little 13-year-old bouncing up and down with a grin that went from ear to ear. She was… — Dick Button

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