Ears Quotes - Page 4

• Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

  Ralph Ellison

  Play, Style, Musician

  Ralph Ellison, Maryemma Graham, Amritjit Singh (1995). “Conversations with Ralph Ellison”, p.364, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

  Henry Fielding

  Guilt, Shame, Accusation

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The History of Amelia”, p.150

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• One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.

  Temple Grandin

  Hurt, School, Silence

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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• When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Eye, Play, Flip

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Nature

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring”

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• Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

  Douglas Horton

  Love, Eye, Hatred

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• A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

  Charles Lamb

  Law, Pistols, Limits

  1833 Of puns. Last Essays of Elia,'Popular Fallacies', no.9.

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• The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Comeback, Talent, Poet

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• To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

  Octavio Paz

  Eye, Poetry, Reading Books

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.66, Arcade Publishing

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• Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Marriage, Pain

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.86, Crown Archetype

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• A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Eye, Creative

  Gertrude Stein, Robert Bartlett Haas (1971). “A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein”

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• [on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

  Billy Wilder

  Life, Music, Sarcastic

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

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• Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

  Brigham Young

  People, Perfect, Religion

  Attributed to Brigham Young in "The Life Story of Brigham Young" by Leah D. Widtsoe, Susa Young Gates, 1930.

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• She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

  George Meredith

  Gossip, Littles, Social

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• What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

  Horace

  Trust, Eye, Mind

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• Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Tonight, Orchestra

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• It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

  Cato the Elder

  Matter, Arguing, Difficult

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• I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

  Clay Aiken

  Winning, Hair, Trying

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• Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

  John Crawford Crosby

  Listening Ear, Brain, Mentor

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• A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

  Sean O'Casey

  Song, Enchanting, Enjoyable

  E. H. Mikhail, Sean O'Casey, John O'Riordan (1974). “The sting and the twinkle: conversations with Sean O'Casey”

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• Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

  Earl Derr Biggers

  Cat, Bravery, Pet

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• I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

  Tug McGraw

  Twelve, Elbows, Pitching

  Tug McGraw, Don Yaeger (2005). “Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer”, Signet

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• I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

  Pete Fountain

  Reading, Thinking, Play

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• I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

  Teena Marie

  Song, Real, Sacrifice

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• It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

  Trevor Dunn

  Listening, Age, Lessons

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