Ear Quotes

1176 Ear quotes by 833 unique authors

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have… — Daniel Barenboim
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance… — Daniel Barenboim
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and… — Oswald Spengler
A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other — Sean O'Casey
It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a result of inadvertently… — Paula Poundstone
Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I… — Jerry Spinelli
The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find… — Jesse Owens
Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear. — Earl Derr Biggers
What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment? — Unknown Author
I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet. — Unknown Author
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… — Unknown Author
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

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