Ears Quotes
2266 quotes by 1518 authors
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To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art'…
— M.C. Escher
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The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form…
— Maria Montessori
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Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules…
— George Herbert
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The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the…
— Harold Innis
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Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on the other hand,…
— Yanni
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I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have…
— Mick Taylor
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My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I…
— Dick Dale
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Around the edge of the crowd was a little 13-year-old bouncing up and down with a grin that went from ear to ear. She was…
— Dick Button
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You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.
— Geri Jewell
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Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound…
— Friedrich Schiller
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears…
— Lucretius
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The use of depleted uranium in the Gulf War has been particularly effective. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born with no…
— Philip Berrigan
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A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were…
— Linda Hogan
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One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's…
— J B Morton
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Me? What am I? Nothing. The legs on which dinner comes to the table, the arms by which cocktails enter the living room, the hands…
— Shirley Ann Grau
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If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive…
— Robert Towne
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I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it…
— Ben Bradlee
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Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears. Before the ear can hear, it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before the voice…
— Mabel Collins
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Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you…
— Tibor Fischer
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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