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  I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

  Adele

  Music, Eye, Rock N Roll

  "Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright", www.rollingstone.com. April 28, 2011.

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• Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

  Mark Antony

  Ambition, Loss, Dogs Of War

  "Fictional character: Mark Anthony". "Mark Anthony’s Speech at Funeral in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare", www.cbsenext.com. October 17, 2013.

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• You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

  Garry Marshall

  Kids, Umpires, Parent

  "Garry Marshall finds a new 'Princess'" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. August 3, 2001.

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• Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.

  Eric Johnston

  Government, Years, Rushing

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• Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

  Emma Thompson

  Children, Advice, Needs

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• If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

  A. A. Milne

  Teacher, Sweet, Talking

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• Where more is meant than meets the ear.

  John Milton

  Hearing

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 120

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• There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

  Clarence Darrow

  Revenge, Law Courts, Justice

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 19 Apr. 1936

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• One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Love, Eye, Men

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• Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

  Francis Quarles

  Heaven, Literature, Tongue

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• Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

  Thomas Beecham

  Music, Memories, Magic

  1953 Television broadcast,17 Nov.

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• The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Friendship, Dream

  Twitter post from May 19, 2013

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• And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.

  Lauren Oliver

  Inspirational, Fall, Feelings

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.217, Hachette UK

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  The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Patriotic, Voice

  Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

  Sean O'Casey

  Life, Song, Insightful

  E. H. Mikhail, Sean O'Casey, John O'Riordan (1974). “The sting and the twinkle: conversations with Sean O'Casey”

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• It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Eye, Our Time

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• For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

  John Zorn

  Tunnels, Years, People

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• It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

  James H. Boren

  Leadership, Looks, Look Up

  James H. Boren (1982). “Fuzzify!: Borenwords and strategies for bureaucratic success”, Epm Pubns Inc

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• I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

  John Mayall

  Art, School, Play

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• We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

  Robert James Graves

  Sound, Drs, Hearing

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• Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Sound, Weight

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• Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Symphony, Sublime

  Howards End (1910) ch. 5

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• The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Wisdom, Men

  1599 Antony. Julius Caesar, act 3, sc.2, l.74-86.

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• Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

  Mark Twain

  Good Life, Cancer, Positive Thinking

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner “The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]: The American claimant and other stories and sketches”

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• The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Vision, Looks

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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