Ears Quotes - Page 16

• A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.

  Michael Foot

  Eye, Mind, Fascination

  'Aneurin Bevan' (1962) vol. 1, ch. 13

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• And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.

  John Milton

  Religious, Eye, Blow

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 157

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• The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.

  Blaise Pascal

  Independent, Men, Giving

  Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.109

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• My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.

  Eudora Welty

  Book, Writing, Voice

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.12, Harvard University Press

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• The belly has no ears.

  Plutarch

  Gluttony, Belly

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• Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Thinking, Practice, Mind

  Shunryu Suzuki (1999). “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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• For some of us, the soul is resident in the sole, and yearns ceaselessly for light and air and self-expression. Our feet are our very selves. The touch of floor or carpet, grass or mud or asphalt, speaks to us loud and clear from the foot, that scorned and lowly organ as dear to us as our eyes and ears.

  Barbara Holland

  Eye, Feet, Light

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• good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Two, People, Listening

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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• Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.

  Marlo Thomas

  Ambition, Sticks, Energy

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• 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 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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• In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

  A. J. Liebling

  Food, Loss, Light

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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