Ear Quotes

1176 Ear quotes by 833 unique authors

The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for… — Mick Fleetwood
How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer… — Stephen Batchelor
I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear. — Jane Horrocks
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind. — Quintilian
As soon as effective listening takes place, the ear identifies what needs to be done and guides the techniques search for a solution — Howard Snell
Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the… — Grayson Perry
ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear. — Ambrose Bierce
Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that.… — Mark Twain
And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next… — Jenny Offill
... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law ... it looks… — Edward Augustus Bowles
The biggest surprise watching video on the tiny, 2.5-inch screen (320 by 240 pixels) is completely immersive. Three unexpected factors are at work. First, the… — David Pogue
A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark,… — William Shakespeare
I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well. — Charley Pride
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that… — Henry David Thoreau
I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections… — Bob Riley
Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons… — Dweezil Zappa
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to… — John Keats
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear. — John Milton
Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not… — Plotinus
Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a… — Immanuel Kant
A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes,… — Sijie Dai
I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy — Groucho Marx
Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to… — Marvin J. Ashton
We must remember that the GOAL of prayer is the ear of God. Unless that is gained, the prayer has utterly failed. The uttering of… — Charles Spurgeon
Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle… — J C Ryle

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