Ear Quotes - page 2

Do not let habit, born from experience, force you along this road, directing aimless eye and echoing ear and tongue; but judge by reason the much contested proof which I have spoken. (Parmenides)
I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other. View quote
Sean O`Casey
Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls. View quote
Eva Ibbotson
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. View quote
Cornelia Funke
I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes. View quote
Emanuel Ax
When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous! View quote
Wally Schirra
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The light comes brighter from the east; the caw Of restive crows is sharper on the ear. View quote
Theodore Roethke
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity. View quote
Alain de Botton
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. View quote
Thomas Fuller
America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice. (Thomas Paine)
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. View quote
Maria Callas
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. View quote
Graham Greene
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear. View quote
Isidore of Seville
Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is. View quote
W. H. Auden
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. View quote
John Cage
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. View quote
Theo de Raadt
Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: "With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!" View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
[F]ear is a great ally. (David Gemmell)
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it. View quote
Willa Cather
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself. View quote
Willa Cather
When no food is given to the ear, Then let a little be given to the stomach. View quote
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