Ears Quotes - Page 13

• It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

  Abraham Cowley

  Nice, Heart, Men

  Abraham Cowley, John Max Attenborough (1915). “Essays and Selected Verse: With an Introd”

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• The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

  Freya Stark

  Silly, Animal, House

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.121, The Overlook Press

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• the title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was. ... This idea of a crown began running in my head then like a tune, and has been running a lot in it ever since.

  Catherine the Great

  Running, Sweet, Queens

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• Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.

  Jon Foreman

  Subjective, Judged

  Source: blog.noisetrade.com

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

  Phyllis Bottome

  Hunters, Grows, Hunted

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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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• 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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• 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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• The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
  [Lat., Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.]

  Sallust

  Fear, Men, Mind

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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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• Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

  Aeschines

  Lying, Rumours, Penetrate

  "De Falsa Legatione" by Aeschines, 149,

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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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• Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it seems to me to be the most difficult writing - that those people are the best writers and they lead the way for everyone else and their writing is frighteningly great.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, People, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Roots, Phenomenology, Quests

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.62, 1988.

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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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• Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear. Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.

  Paul Simon

  Moving, Thinking, Play

  "Paul Simon's Workshop at the Guitar Study Center" by Richard Albero and Fred Styles, Guitar Player, April 1975.

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• I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Play, Long

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