Ears Quotes - Page 24

• There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.

  Herbert Spencer

  Clear Head, Law, Practice

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Philosophy of Style: An Essay”, p.9

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• When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raised, holds his ear To some bright star in the supremest Round; Through which, besides the light that's seen There may be heard, from Heaven within, The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound.

  Owen Feltham

  Stars, Angel, Light

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• The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is not going to have the wool pulled over his eyes. It speaks of a fundamental placement in relation to the work, that of a voyager in the world coming upon a strange object. The reader reconstitutes the work by his active participation, by approaching the object, tapping it, shaking it, holding it to his ear to hear the roaring within. It is characteristic of the object that it does not declare itself all at once, in a rush of pleasant naïveté.

  Donald Barthelme

  Eye, Men, Vets

  "After Joyce (1964)". "Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme". Book by Donald Barthelme, p. 4, 1997.

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• The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.

  Theodore Roethke

  Light, Crow, East

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• Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground.

  Gracie Allen

  Feet, Able, Politician

  "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.

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• Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Voice, Numbers

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.118, 谷月社

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• When no food is given to the ear,
  Then let a little be given to the stomach.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Littles, Given, Stomach

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• What [Tulio Serafin] said that impressed me was: "When one wants to find a gesture, when you want to find how to act on stage, all you have to do is listen to the music. The composer has already seen to that." If you take the trouble to really listen with your soul and with your ears - and I say soul and ears because the mind must work, but not too much also - you will find every gesture there. And it is all true, you know.

  Maria Callas

  Soul, Mind, Gestures

  "Maria Callas: The Callas Conversations" by Maria Callas. an Interview in Paris with Lord Harewood for the BBC (April 1968). EMI Classics DVD, 2004.

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• Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the other ... which comes back to reading poetry aloud.

  Yvor Winters

  Reading, Mind, Wells

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• Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Feet, Uganda

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

  Basil Bunting

  Smart, Sound, Reader

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• People in the business always say, "You look fabulous." You get that all the time and it kind of goes in one ear and out the other because most of the time they just say that to make you feel good. It's nice when you hear it from an ordinary person and then I appreciate it.

  Heidi Klum

  Nice, People, Appreciate

  "Heidi Klum: Fashion Shows Are Not My Thing". Parade Interview, parade.com. July 10, 2008.

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• [F]ear is a great ally.

  David Gemmell

  Allies

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• I'm a good listener, you know. My gran used to say that's why you've got two ears and one mouth. I just truly love what I do and treat it with a lot of respect and all these relationships in the music business that people talk about.

  Johnny Reid

  Two, People, Mouths

  "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.

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• I've always felt that people's ears are wider than programmers are ever wiling to give them credit for. It's always been very important to me that you not have to turn me off because your kids are in the back seat.

  Donnie Simpson

  Kids, People, Giving

  "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.

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• Since the day I got in radio at the age of 15, I always wanted everyone with ears listening to me. I don't know how to narrow that down.

  Donnie Simpson

  Listening, Age, Radio

  "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.

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• I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press.

  Theo de Raadt

  Thinking, People, Luck

  "Interview: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software". The Epoch Times, July 05, 2005.

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• The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Appreciate, Musical

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• But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.

  Robert Byron

  Nice

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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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• Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking, unfold itself inside your eyes Let its fierceness and tenderness hold you Let its vastness be undisguised in all your days.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Sleep, Eye, Vastness

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.55, Knopf

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• The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.

  Isak Dinesen

  Grieving, People, House

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• Dull indeed would be the man that did not feel the thrill awakened by the first glimpse of brilliant color in the orchard, and the cheery warbling notes borne to our ears on the first gentle breath of spring!

  Arthur Cleveland Bent

  Spring, Men, Color

  Arthur Cleveland Bent (1949). “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes”

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• The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to obey that testimony which, I believe, God bears in every human heart, however dull, to those great truths which the Bible reveals. This, and not logic, is the way to grow in religious knowledge, to know that the truths of religion are not shadows, but deep realities.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Bible, Spiritual, Religious

  John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.116

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• Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear

  St. Vincent

  Sleep, Your Side, Poison

  Song: Paris Is Burning

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