Ears Quotes

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We all start out thinking that there is such a thing as perfection and that there's something wrong with us if we settle for less.… — James Howe
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 contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears ... I'm a gut pile addict… — Ted Nugent
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
If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find… — Julian Assange
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
Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used… — Charles Ives
I don't write music for sissy ears. — Charles Ives
For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against… — George Pataki
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
All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying… — James Connolly
You live your life between your ears. — Bebe Moore Campbell
You want to talk to someone; first open your ears. — Joseph Joubert
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
Temptation hath a music for all ears. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

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