Ears Quotes - Page 3

• True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

  Edward Dyer

  True Love, Heart, Eye

  Sir Edward Dyer, “The Lowest Trees Have Tops”

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• There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Stressed, Good Times

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.199

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• Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

  Edward Fairfax

  Joy, Mind, Way

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• France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Circles, Demand, Publicity

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• I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

  Charley Pride

  Guitar, Tunes, Method

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• The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

  Luciano Berio

  Spiritual, Demand, Spheres

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• We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

  Bob Weir

  Music, Light, Challenges

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• I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

  Bob Riley

  Jobs, Thinking, Special

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• It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.

  Mo Rocca

  Trust, Men, Interesting

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• Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

  F. L. Lucas

  Simple, Sound, Principles

  F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, p.229, Harriman House Limited

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• I learn my songs by ear.

  Kate Smith

  Song

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• I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

  Erykah Badu

  Produce

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

  Jose Bergamin

  Believe, Let It Go, Danger

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• It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

  Charles Dance

  Attitude, Eye, Games

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• He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

  William Congreve

  Confidence, Integrity, Views

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• The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

  John Legend

  Reality, Fire, Play

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• We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

  Blaise Pascal

  Heart, Listening

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• I have Van Gogh's ear for music

  Stephen Fry

  Vans

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• And for the few that only lend their ear,
  That few is all the world.

  Samuel Daniel

  World

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.132

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• Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.

  Andrei Gromyko

  Husband, Night, Your Husband

  1984 Said to Nancy Reagan at a White House reception, 28 Sep.

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• Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Hands, Safety

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• This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

  Emily Murphy

  Men, World, Tongue

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• The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look, because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

  Ian Mckellen

  America, People, Ordinary

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  What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

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• A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

  Abba Eban

  Movement, Elegance, Posture

  Abba Solomon Eban (1999). “Diplomacy for the Next Century”, p.88, Yale University Press

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