Ear Quotes

1176 Ear quotes by 833 unique authors

When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result… — Anthony de Mello
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals… — Nadia Boulanger
The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and… — Unknown Author
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. — Maya Angelou
Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in… — Unknown Author
Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one… — Unknown Author
For they are yet ear-kissing arguments. — William Shakespeare
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. — Barbara Tuchman
The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings… — Stephen King
There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting… — Milan Kundera
This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all.... On… — Aldo Leopold
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would… — Martin Luther
All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now… — George MacDonald
Listen and attend with the ear of your heart. — Benedict of Nursia
Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique,… — Dean Koontz
A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of… — Warren G. Bennis
The paramedic whispered in my ear 'God will never leave you or forsake you.' — Bethany Hamilton
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste? — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. — Oliver Sacks
Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse. — Lord Byron
We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his… — Alice McDermott
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear. — Cinda Williams Chima

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