Ears Quotes - Page 33

• My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

  Tori Amos

  Land, Wings, Problem

  "This much I know: Tori Amos". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.

  Dave Attell

  Soundtracks, Music Is, Feels

  "Random Rules: Dave Attell". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. January 2, 2008.

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• Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?

  David Attenborough

  Eye, Bird, World

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• Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

  Albert Bandura

  Powerful, Fall, Mean

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• I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

  Mario Batali

  Media, Tails, Coverage

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• To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Humble, Heaven

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  People, Connections, Levels

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• I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

  Cate Blanchett

  Blue, Acting, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

  Mary J. Blige

  Music, Song, People

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• To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Song, Art, Children

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• Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

  Chaz Bono

  Legs, Gender

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• 'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.

  Albert Brooks

  Thinking, Play, Casting

  "Albert Brooks Talks DRIVE, TAXI DRIVER, Improvising, Future Projects, Where’s the DEFENDING YOUR LIFE Blu-ray & Turning Down Roles". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 31, 2011.

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• The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

  Albert Camus

  Silence, Sound, World

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• I don't have a Bluetooth thing on my ear. That bugs me.

  Drew Carey

  Bugs, Bluetooth

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• Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Hands, Scratches, Useless

  "Planet Of The Apes: Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". Cinema.com Interview, www.cinema.com. 2001.

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• The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

  Willa Cather

  Healing, Eye, Voice

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.50, Vintage

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• I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Eye, Different

  "Screenwriter/Composer Nick Cave Talks LAWLESS, Transitioning into Screenwriting, Guillermo del Toro’s PINOCCHIO, THE THREEPENNY OPERA, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  Kate Chopin

  Wind, Tree, Earth

  Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”

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• When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

  Norm Crosby

  Funny, Hilarious, Smart

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• The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

  Denis Diderot

  Running, Law, Long

  "Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

  Karen Duffy

  Pain, Brain, Body

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

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• I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

  Bob Dylan

  Cat, Cutting, Kind

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but also those of our friends, and often the boom of homemade cannon shot off by daring boys of 16 years, ready to lose a hand if it blew up.

  Paul Engle

  Workout, Boys, July

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• Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.

  Brian Eno

  People, Bugs, Sometimes

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• Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

  Richard Eyre

  Art, Eye, Empathy

  "Richard Eyre: Arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid" by Richard Eyre, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2011.

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