Ear Quotes

1176 Ear quotes by 833 unique authors

Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot,… — Paul Auster
I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear. — John Mayall
Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must… — Gregory Maguire
I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when… — Andrew Solomon
Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but… — Elliott Yamin
We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before. — Robert James Graves
I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh… — Jack Gilbert
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words… — Helen Dunmore
The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in… — Herbert Gold
Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear. — Robert Breault
On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. — Lord Byron
It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, /… — William Butler Yeats
We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention… — Sue Thoele
When we see what He has for us there, we'll agree with Paul, when he wrote about Heaven, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,… — David Berg
I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding… — Madeleine L'Engle
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us… — Ambrose Bierce
Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with… — James Whistler
There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered… — Thomas Browne
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers… — William Shakespeare
Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too… — William Shakespeare
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear. — Maya Angelou
Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do… — Leonardo da Vinci

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