Ears Quotes - Page 13

A kid that picks up a record, he doesn't need to know anything other than the music and have it in his or her headphones. They're getting ideas directly, it's like someone whispering in their ear. That's such a personal way to receive information.

Conor Oberst

Kids, Ideas, Needs

"Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 7, 2015.

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The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd,
The child is born by many a pang endear'd
And now the mother's ear has caught his cry;
O grant the cherub to her asking eye!
He comes--she clasps him. To her bosom press'd
He drinks the balm of life, and drops to rest.

Samuel Rogers

Mother, Children, Eye

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if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

Hortense Calisher

Technology, Deaf, Implications

Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.33, Open Road Media

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Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear;
'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear.
Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear,
But what thou art.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

Art, Soul, Crowds

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Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Mouths, Slander, Reporters

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She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.

Amy Tan

Mother, Heart, People

Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.185, Penguin

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No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.

Julius Caesar

Want, Charming, Music Is

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To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

Margaret Millar

Song, Eye, Darkness

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It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.

Gretel Ehrlich

Narcissistic, Way, Next

Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

Phyllis Bottome

Hunters, Grows, Hunted

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He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.

Marilynne Robinson

Jesus, Afterlife, Soldier

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Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Chief Joseph

Country, Mother, Brother

Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue my fancy; her voice for ever hang in my ears: may her precepts but sink into my heart!

Hester Lynch Piozzi

Wise, Mother, Heart

Hester Lynch Piozzi (1926). “The letters of Mrs. Thrale”

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This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.

Harriet Martineau

America, Female, Noble

Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.145

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Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.

Oriana Fallaci

Eye, Feelings, Brain

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The inward sighs of humble penitence
Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns
Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.

Joanna Baillie

Humble, Hymns, Air

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Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same.

Rosa Luxemburg

Song, Rude, Bird

Rosa Luxemburg (1946). “Letters from prison”

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There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

Margaret Oliphant

Weakness, Assumption, Skeptic

Margaret Oliphant (1876). “Phoebe, Junior0: A Last Chronicle of Carlingford : in Two Volumes”, p.40

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[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.

Princess Diana

Father, Son, Birth

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Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. The same applies to pleasures of the sight. And the same applies to pleasures of the ear.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Memories, Blessed, Blessing

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my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.

Ana Castillo

People, Waste, Tiny

Ana Castillo (1994). “Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter”, Anchor Books

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Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

Amy Sedaris

School, Catholic, Stories

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To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least, the contralto notes alone give an adequate sense of pathos. They are born near the heart.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Nice, Heart, Voice

Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.83

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Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music, Please, Listeners

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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I am fairly embraced by the Hollywood community, and I love making movies and I love acting, but I'm not real crazy about the Hollywood system. So the fact that they embrace me is a shock to me because I tell them to kiss my ass all the time. I don't understand why they haven't thrown me out on my ear. The other thing is I don't participate much. I have very few friends within the movie community. I hang out with some guys I've known forever. They're all broke and eat me out of house and home. But I stay home mostly and I don't go to the parties. Maybe that preserves me.

Billy Bob Thornton

Crazy, Real, Party

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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