Ear Quotes

1176 Ear quotes by 833 unique authors

Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his… — Sylvia Plath
If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear. — Mark Twain
The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take… — Wendy O. Williams
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move… — Simone Weil
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. — John Dryden
I wouldn't urinate in his ear if his brain was on fire! — Bobby Hull
When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass… — Thomas Carlyle
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. — Walter Scott
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can't see with the eye or hear with the ear. The only way… — Ajahn Chah
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. — Joseph Joubert
Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief. — William Shakespeare
Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of… — Wallace Stevens
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which… — Ernest Holmes
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

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