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• Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Crowns, Hardship

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• No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

  Henry Taylor

  Listening Ear, Soul, Sirens

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• Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.

  Lord Byron

  Dark, Egypt, Pyramids

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.724, Delphi Classics

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• Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's. Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.

  Terry Jones

  Thinking, Order, Voice

  "The Middle Ages of reason" by Terry Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.

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• Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Way, Language

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• People think my friend George is weird because he wears sideburns...behind his ears. I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on them.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• When you're acting, everything is there around you, you just have to believe that it's real. When you're standing there with a slightly grey wig on and you have a baby in your arms screaming in your ear, you can go: "Well, I guess this is what it's like!"

  Jim Sturgess

  Baby, Real, Believe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's a little thing on your shoulder called intuition and it whispers in your ear. Everyone has that, there is a voice telling you to do something. Most people ignore it - but you must listen to it. I do it every day, all day.

  Ridley Scott

  Voice, People, Intuition

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a "real teacher" for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano. That was the main thing.

  Birdy

  Mom, Teacher, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Sex, Distance

  Interview with Wes Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.

  David Whyte

  Art, Listening Ear, Silence

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Writing, Eye, Hands

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• A sloth once whispered in my ear and told me that when he is clinging to branches he closes his eyes and imagines that he's still a baby holding on to his mama.

  Ann Burton

  Baby, Eye, Sloth

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a notebook with me at all times and the only criteria for anything making it into that notebook is if it stops me in my tracks for even an instant, if it catches my eye or my ear and I just write it down.

  Rita Dove

  Notebook, Inspiration, Writing

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Prosperity, Jest

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [869]

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• All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.

  Stephen Fry

  Mother, Two, White

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• You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. I am satisfied that a scholar who tries to combine these parts sells his birthright for a mess of pottage; that, when the final count is made, it will be found that the impairment of his powers far outweighs any possible contribution to the causes he has espoused.

  Learned Hand

  Voice, Doubt, Mind

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• Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Design, Guy, Wake Up

  "The Wired Diaries 2000". www.wired.com. January 01, 2000.

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• Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.

  Andres Segovia

  Color, Thorough Knowledge, Special

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• When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.

  Roger Waters

  Play, Done, Pieces

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Hungry ears are sharp ones.

  Jane Smiley

  Hungry

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• If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Long, Water

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• I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear.

  Gianfranco Zola

  Pigs, Apples, Jam

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• Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

  Donald Hall

  Eye, Sound, Literature

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• He who has ears for hearing, let him listen

  Benedict of Nursia

  Hearing

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