Ears Quotes - Page 40

Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it... All about him was safe.

Naomi Mitchison

Fathers Day, Safety, Fatherhood

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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

Memorable, Kissing, Argument

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His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Animal, Tears, Firsts

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Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.

Charles Darwin

Friendship, Dog, Humility

Charles Darwin (1874). “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.10

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I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

Aaron Eckhart

Friendship, Dog, Baby

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An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

Barbara Tuchman

Writing, Sound, Essentials

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The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings on the page and in your ear. If you expect it to ring true, then you must talk yourself. Even more important, you must shut up and listen to others talk.

Stephen King

Writing, Important, Pages

Stephen King (2001). “On writing: a memoir of the craft”

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Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures and patterns of music, human beings have developed no mathematical equivalent to a pair of ears. Mathematics can only be "seen" with the "eyes of the mind". It is as if we had no sense of hearing, so that only someone able to sight read music would be able to appreciate its patterns and harmonies.

Keith Devlin

Teaching, Eye, Math

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There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

Milan Kundera

Soccer, Football, Everyday

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Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

Charles Ives

Music, Lying, Confused

Charles Ives (2004). “129 Songs”, p.72, A-R Editions, Inc.

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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all. On a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen, and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it - a vast pulsing harmony - its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.

Aldo Leopold

Life, Song, Nature

"A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Chihuahua and Sonora: The Green Lagoons", p. 149, 1949.

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Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Way, Warning

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

Stephen Chbosky

Book, Sight, Giving

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The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sunset, Eye, Heart

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All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear; how much more we are helped on by hope in the eternal life.

Martin Luther

Life, Hope, Spring

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All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now in daisy, now in a wind-waft, a cloud, a sunset; a power that holds constant and sweetest relation with the dark and silent world within us. The same God who is in us, and upon whose tree we are the buds, if not yet the flowers, also is all about us- inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us.

George MacDonald

Faith, Flower, Inspiration

George MacDonald (1978). “The World of George Macdonald: Selections from His Works of Fiction”, Shaw

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There is truth in little corners of our lives. There are hints of it in songs and children's eyes. It's familiar, like an ancient lullaby; What do I live for? If we've eyes to see... If we've ears to hear... To find it in our hearts and mouths the word that saves is near. Shed that shallow skin... Come and live again... Leave all you were before... To believe is to begin.

Brooke Fraser

Faith, Song, Children

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Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Benedict of Nursia

Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.

Helen Keller

Grief, Mourn

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What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Horse, Past, Knees

Arthur Conan Doyle (2008). “The Napoleonic Trilogy”, p.331, Fireship Press

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Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.

Dean Koontz

Love, Song, Heart

Dean Koontz (2004). “The Bad Place”, p.11, Penguin

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There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Life, Wisdom, Mind

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Khalil Gibran

Life, Wisdom, Eye

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Love, Song, Heart

Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

Erica Jong

Love, Song, Good Life

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Open Road Media

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