Ears Quotes:

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

- Abba Eban

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

topic: Ears, Movement, Elegance, Statesmen

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Ears, Emergencies, Treatment

In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Emergencies, Comfort, Ears, Words Of Comfort

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Father, Comfort, Ears, Words Of Comfort

Music isn`t for the eyes, it`s for the ears

- Adele

topic: Inspirational, Eye, Ears

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

- Adele

source: "Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright", www.rollingstone.com. April 28, 2011.

topic: Music, Eye, Ears

You must lend an ear today, because we are the leaders of tomorrow

- Adora Svitak

topic: Leader, Today, Ears, Leaders Of Tomorrow

Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

- Aeschines

source: "De Falsa Legatione" by Aeschines, 149,

topic: Lying, Ears, Rumours, Penetrate

Our responsibility is to get God's word to their ears. Only God can get the word from their ears to their heart.

- Albert Mohler

topic: Heart, Responsibility, Ears

Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Attitude, Tunes, Ears

With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution....This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.

- Alexander Blok

topic: Heart, Ears, Body

Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Eye, Ears, Taste

To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Ears, Hell, Courtesy, Cushions

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

- Alexander Smith

source: Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144

topic: Phrases, Ears, Care

We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate.

- Allan Haines Loughead

topic: Distance, Past, Ears, Time And Distance

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

- Amanda Holden

topic: Tattoo, School, Ears, Detention

I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies.

- Amanda McBroom

topic: Art, Hbo, Ears

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Two, Ears, Cotton, Clarinet

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

- Amity Shlaes

topic: Children, Bud, Ears

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.

- Amy Clampitt

source: Amy Clampitt (1991). “Predecessors, et cetera: essays”, Univ of Michigan Pr

topic: Brain, Ears, Vibrations

ahhhh...organic and rich like good soil... makes me want to listen and hear it grow. the songs are honest and dimensional. it's music to my ears.

- Amy Ray

topic: Song, Ears, Want

my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.

- Ana Castillo

topic: People, Ears, Waste

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

- Andrei Gromyko

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

topic: Husband, Night, Ears, Your Husband

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

- Anish Kapoor

topic: Eye, Ears, Instruments

Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.

- Ann Voskamp

topic: Father, Heart, Ears, Lament

what red lips you have," he said in her ear. Did she dare say it? "All the better to kiss you with, my dear," she replied. And then their lips met.

- Annette Curtis Klause

source: Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.51, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

topic: Kissing, Ears, Red

Your ears will always lead you right, but you must know why.

- Anton Webern

topic: Ears

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

- Arnold Schoenberg

source: "Schoenberg‎". Book by Merle Armitage, p. 143, 1971.

topic: Eye, Ears, Should

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

- Art Blakey

topic: Music, Intelligent, Ears

Court... a place where they dispense with justice.

- Arthur Cheney Train

topic: Justice, Ears, Court

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

topic: Horse, Past, Ears, Greyhounds

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

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Life, Ears, Enormous

For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet.

- Astor Piazzolla

topic: Feet, Ears, Tango

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

- Audra McDonald

source: "Audra McDonald: Shaping 'Bess' On Broadway". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 15, 2012.

topic: Southern, Dialect, Ears, Jamaicans

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

- Basil Bunting

topic: Smart, Sound, Ears

You live your life between your ears.

- Bebe Moore Campbell

topic: Live Your Life, Ears

They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!

- Ben Affleck

topic: Baby, Looks, Ears, Boiler Room, Smile On My Face

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

- Ben Crenshaw

topic: Distance, Golf, Ears, Funny Golf, Golf Jokes

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Understanding, Ears, Speak

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Two, Silence, Ears

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

- Bernard Malamud

topic: Change, Ears, World

The paramedic whispered in my ear 'God will never leave you or forsake you.'

- Bethany Hamilton

topic: Inspirational, Ears, Gods Will, Paramedics

That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Ears, Flapping

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

- Bill Hybels

source: Bill Hybels (2010). “The Power of a Whisper: Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond”, p.11, Zondervan

topic: Ears, World, Noise, Ambient

Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.

- Bill Hybels

source: Bill Hybels (2014). “Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul”, p.82, Tyndale House

topic: Heaven, Each Day, Ears

On TV you can, you know you can cram, you know, 30 people into a closet and have an orgy, and then they can all shoot up, and everybody has cigarettes in their nostrils and their ears. They don't care. So yeah, television is amazing right now.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: People, Ears, Television

Spread your ear pollution far and wide.

- Billy Squier

topic: Rock And Roll, Ears, Pollution

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Heart, Listening, Ears

The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.

- Bob Hicok

source: Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.53, Copper Canyon Press

topic: Grieving, Machines, Ears, Answering Machines

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

- Bob McDonnell

source: "McDonnell Talks Super Tuesday". Interview with Jim Geraghty, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2012.

topic: Abortion, Ears, Medical, Medical Procedures, Informed Consent

The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.

- Boris Pasternak

topic: Echoes, Air, Ears

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

- Brandon Sanderson

topic: Pain, Eye, Ears

Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

- Brian Jacques

topic: Watches, Ears, Paws, Robbers, Whiskers

Well, the real sex organ is between the ears, not between the legs

- Brian Molko

topic: Sex, Real, Ears

I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.

- Brian Setzer

topic: Would Be, Ears, Being Cool, Overdrive

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Ears, Today, Wealth, Spiritual Wealth, Greatest Wealth

Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

- Britt Ekland

topic: Class, Hurtful, Ears, Fatty, Dumbo

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

- Bruce Springsteen

topic: Dream, Ears

Put your ear to the sky and listen my darling, everything whispers I love you.

- Buddy Wakefield

topic: Love You, Sky, Ears

Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.

- C.D. Payne

topic: Ears, Faces, Mutilation

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

- Calvin Trillin

topic: Sound, Ears, Deceiving, Chorus

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

- Carl Hiaasen

topic: Dog, Ears, Pages

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

source: "Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments". Essay by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, en.wikiquote.org. 1753.

topic: Singing, Ears, Conscious

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

- Carly Simon

topic: People, Worry, Ears, Worrying Too Much

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

topic: Blue, Done, Ears, Videogame, Scorsese

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

- Cato the Elder

topic: Ears, Matter, Arguing

I love him," I said, but even to my own ears I didn't sound happy about it.

- Charlaine Harris

topic: I Love Him, Sound, Ears

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Men, Tails, Ears

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Love, Ears, May, Enough Love

I don't write music for sissy ears.

- Charles Ives

topic: Writing, Ears, Sissy

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.

- Charles Lamb

topic: Reading, Needs, Ears, Docile

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

topic: Law, Ears, Pistols, Hearing Loss

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

topic: Political, Noble, Ears

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

- Charley Pride

topic: Guitar, Tunes, Ears

Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.

- Charlotte Mew

source: Charlotte Mary Mew (1981). “Collected Poems and Prose”, Carcanet Press

topic: People, Religion, Ears

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

- Chaz Bono

topic: Ears, Legs, Gender

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

- Chief Joseph

topic: Men, People, Ears

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

- Chris Cleave

topic: Ears, Whispering, World, Detention

This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.

- Chris Cleave

source: Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

topic: Grief, Moving, Ears

Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem.

- Chris Martin

topic: Thinking, Ears, Problem

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

- Chris Martin

topic: Years, Ears, Woods

My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.

- Chrisette Michele

source: "Natural Hair Celebrity- Chrisette Michele". Curly Nikki Interview, www.curlynikki.com. April 12, 2010.

topic: Heart, Ideas, Ears

I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.

- Christine McVie

topic: Dog, Animal, Ears

The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.

- Christopher Augustine Reynolds

topic: Humility, Ears, Corn

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

- Chuck Berry

topic: Song, Records, Ears

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.

- Cinda Williams Chima

topic: Character, Fiction, Ears

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Justice, Ears, Court, Law And Justice, Law Courts

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.

- Cornelia Funke

topic: Book, Reading, Ears

The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Devil, Ears, Praying

I'm kicking new flava in ya ear!

- Craig Mack

source: Song: Flava In Ya Ear

topic: Kicking, Ears

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.

- Criss Jami

topic: Ears, Want, Hearing

Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before.

- D. J. Grothe

topic: Humility, Forever, Ears

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

- Daniel Okrent

topic: Mind, Ears, Substance, Partisans

Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.

- Danielle Trussoni

source: Danielle Trussoni (2010). “Angelology: A Novel”, p.133, Penguin

topic: Beautiful, Play, Ears, Beautiful Music

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

- Dave Attell

topic: Ears, Soundtracks, Music Is

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

- David Abram

source: David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.9, Vintage

topic: Eye, Skins, Ears, Otherness

Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so obvious to our oral [storytelling] ancestors. Weve lost our ear for the music of language -- for the rhythmic, melodic layer of speech by which earthly things overhear us.

- David Abram

topic: Order, Ears, Speech, Earthly Things

One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.

- David Anthony Durham

source: David Anthony Durham (2010). “Acacia”, p.451, Random House

topic: Ears, Rhythm

Worst haircut I've ever seen in my life. And I've had a few bad ones. It looks like he (John Daly) has a divot over each ear.

- David Feherty

topic: Looks, Ears, Worst

[F]ear is a great ally.

- David Gemmell

topic: Allies, Ears

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.

- David Ogden Stiers

source: Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

topic: People, Ears, Might

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

- David W Augsburger

source: "The New Freedom of Forgiveness". Book by David W Augsburger, March 13, 2000.

topic: Communication, Heart, Ears, Believability, Believable

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Anxiety, Ears, Circus

The best way to persuade is with your ears.

- Dean Rusk

topic: Life, Advice, Ears

I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.

- Delta Goodrem

topic: People, Ears, Excited

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

- Dennis Weaver

topic: Ears, Purses, Film

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

- Diane Cilento

topic: Ears, Language

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

- Dick Dale

topic: Uncles, Sound, Ears, Armstrong, Soulful

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

topic: Listening, Ears, Fields

Those who have ears to hear, will hear

- Dmitri Shostakovich

topic: Ears

If you got ears, you gotta listen.

- Don Van Vliet

source: Song: Dirty Blue Gene

topic: Ears

One hundred ten thousand ears in this ballpark, and he's got to hit my ear.

- Don Zimmer

topic: Yankees, Ears, Hundred

I've always had control of what I played on the air. I have always had very open ears.

- Donnie Simpson

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Air, Ears

Since the day I got in radio at the age of 15, I always wanted everyone with ears listening to me. I don't know how to narrow that down.

- Donnie Simpson

source: "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.

topic: Listening, Age, Ears

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Eye, Ears, Hearsay

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

- Douglas William Jerrold

topic: Curiosity, Ears, Tongue

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

- Douglas William Jerrold

topic: Eye, Desire, Ears

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Distance, Gentleman, Ears, Kind Words

Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.

- Edmond Jabes

topic: Ears, Invisibility

A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.

- Edmond Rostand

topic: Kissing, Secret, Ears, Kissing Him, Lips And Kissing

Freedom begins between the ears.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Freedom, Liberty, Ears

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

- Edward Fairfax

topic: Joy, Mind, Ears

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

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

topic: Animal, Tears, Ears, Old Dog, Dog Death

When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.

- Elizabeth Charles

topic: Children, Father, Ears

Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the face, almost resting on the table before her. He came close to her. He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words: — 'Take care. — If you do not speak — I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

topic: Names, Ears, Levels, Presumptuous

None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, "Do not magnify the imperfections of others.

- Elizabeth Keckley

source: Elizabeth Keckley (1868). “Behind The Scenes”, p.15

topic: Voice, Perfect, Ears

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

- Emanuel Ax

topic: Eye, Ears

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

- Emily Murphy

topic: Men, Ears, World, Courtship

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.

- Erich Schiffmann

source: Erich Schiffmann (1996). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stillness”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

topic: Yoga, Eye, Ears, Yoga Peace, Yoga Practice

Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.

- Ernest Holmes

topic: Voice, Ears

We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings.

- Ernest Holmes

topic: Voice, Forever, Ears, Eternal Love

The danger lies not in the big ears of little pitchers, but in the large mouths.

- Ethel Mumford

topic: Lying, Ears, Mouths

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

- Eugene Ormandy

topic: Tonight, Ears

I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.

- Evander Holyfield

topic: Boxing, Decision, Ears, Larry

Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.

- Evelyn Glennie

topic: Ears, Body, Hearing

children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.

- Fanny Kemble

source: Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.22

topic: Children, Eye, Ears

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

- Frances Wright

topic: Truth, Simple, Ears

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

- Francesco Guicciardini

source: Francesco Guicciardini (1755). “The history of Italy: from the year 1490 to 1532”, p.40

topic: Eye, Ears, Ambassadors, Statesmanship

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Average, Ears, Reputation

I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there are no wasps, there are no hornets here. If some wanton bee chance to buzz about thine ears, stand thy ground and hold thy hands-there's none will sting thee, if thou strike not first. If any do, she hath honey in her bag will cure thee too.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Hands, Bags, Ears, Wasps, Wanton

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Heaven, Ears, Literature

The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue

- Frank Bettger

source: Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

topic: Cutting, Giving, Ears, Short Cuts

If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.

- Fred Beck

topic: Golf, Shells, Ears

We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

- Fred Rogers

topic: Ears, Mouths, Speak

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

- Fritz Lang

topic: Regret, Eye, Ears

He nuzzled in at her neck kissing and licking her softly just below her ear. “Just a moment ” he said. “I need a small reminder that you are here you are whole and you are mine.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Kissing, Needs, Ears

Foolishness pours out of an open mouth.... but wisdom sneaks in through the ears....

- Gail Z. Martin

source: Gail Z. Martin (2012). “The Dread: The Fallen Kings Cycle: Book Two”, p.147, Hachette UK

topic: Ears, Mouths, Sneak, Sneak In

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this

- Garry Marshall

source: "Garry Marshall finds a new 'Princess'" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. August 3, 2001.

topic: Kids, Parent, Ears

Sam picked up his pack, but before he could put it on, Mogget leaped onto it and slid under the top flap. All that could be seen of him were his green eyes and one white-furred ear. "Remember I advised against this way," he instructed. "Wake me when whatever terrible thing is a about to happen happens, or if it appears I might get wet.

- Garth Nix

topic: Eye, White, Ears, Mogget, Green Eyes

What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetime It's whistling past my ear

- Gayle Forman

topic: Past, Sound, Ears, Whistling

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

- George Eliot

topic: Sorrow, Ears, Humans, Life Is Pain, No Pain

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

- George Eliot

topic: Music, Ears, Pipe

There ain't nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in your mouthpiece. Five seconds to go, the boom! The bell. It's more exciting than looking down a cliff.

- George Foreman

topic: Boxing, Guy, Ears, Mouthpiece

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

- George Meredith

topic: Gossip, Ears, Littles, Sewage

For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.

- George Pataki

topic: Eye, Effort, Ears, Coordinating

[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.

- George Richard Marek

topic: Eye, Doe, Ears

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

- Georges Duhamel

topic: Ears, Mouths

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

source: 'The Habit of Perfection' (written 1866)

topic: Music, Silence, Ears

You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.

- Geri Jewell

topic: Eyebrows, Ears, Being A Woman, Hardest Thing, Cerebral Palsy

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

- Gian Carlo Menotti

topic: Remembrance, Quality, Ears, Inevitability

I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when something's a big deal for us, it's only become a big deal in the space between our ears.

- Gillian Anderson

topic: Space, Laughing, Ears, Laugh At Yourself, Big Deal

I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.

- Glenn Miller

topic: Stress, Real, Ears, Jazz Band

It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out.

- Grace Coolidge

topic: Giving, Unbroken, Ears

Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground.

- Gracie Allen

topic: Feet, Ears, Able

It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.

- Gretel Ehrlich

source: Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Narcissistic, Ears, Way, Monologues

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

- Gustave Flaubert

topic: Writing, Sound, Ears, Novel Writing, Writing Fiction

Listening is an essential part of praying. Answers from the Lord come quietly-every so quietly. In fact, few hear his answers audibly with their ears. We must be listening carefully or we will never recognize them.

- H. Burke Peterson

topic: Listening, Essentials, Ears

When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.

- Hans Christian Andersen

topic: Heart, Bird, Ears

If it were not for the assurance that I have that the Lord is near to us, guiding, directing, the burden would be almost beyond my strength, but because I know that He is there, and that He can be appealed to, and if we have ears to hear attuned to Him, we will never be left alone.

- Harold B. Lee

topic: Would Be, Ears, Lord

Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.

- Hartley Coleridge

source: Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge”, p.310

topic: Sea, Victory, Ears

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

- Helen Dunmore

topic: Writing, Sound, Ears, Writing Poetry

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

topic: Hands, Scratches, Ears, Furry

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

- Henry Fielding

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

topic: Guilt, Ears, Shame, False Accusation, Shame And Guilt

The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.

- Herbert Gold

topic: Eye, Blood, Ears, Intestines, Blood Pressure

You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.

- Hilary Mantel

topic: Kings, Thinking, Ears

Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.

- Homer

topic: Giving, Ears

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

- Horace

topic: Eye, Mind, Ears, Through The Eyes, Trust Worthy

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

- Hortense Calisher

source: Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.33, Open Road Media

topic: Technology, Ears, Deaf

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

- Huey Long

topic: Differences, Ankles, Ears, Democratic Leadership

Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's.

- Ian Frazier

topic: Talking, Sound, Ears, Birdsong

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

- Ihab Hassan

topic: Eye, Ears, Kind

If you come back to me, I'll never leave you", I whispered into the furry ear. "I'll make you all the pies you could ever eat.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.277, Penguin

topic: Pie, Ears, Come Back To Me, Furry

Every woman should be told she's attractive. Men are seduced by their eyes, women by their ears." Saiman

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Eye, Men, Ears, Attractive Man

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

- Isaac Barrow

topic: Sweet, Ears, Praise, Sweet Music

A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that happens, but I'm sure it has an inner basis that is never learned.

- Isaac Stern

topic: Attention, Ears, Demand, Conductor

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

- Isadora Duncan

topic: Music, America, Ears

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.

- Isidore of Seville

source: "An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville", by Ernest Brehaut New York: B. Franklin, 1964.

topic: Eye, Voice, Ears, Seville

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

- Isocrates

source: Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

topic: Ears, Ease, Way, Leisure Time

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

- J. B. Morton

source: 'By the Way' (1931) p. 282

topic: Wife, Trying, Ears, Silk

I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.

- J. D. Salinger

topic: Ears, Written Word, Unwritten

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Humor, Ears, World, Deathly Hallows, Fred Weasley

Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be taught.

- Jack LaLanne

topic: Guy, Done, Ears, Physically Fit, Triathlon

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

- Jacki Weaver

topic: Growing Up, Listening, Ears

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

topic: People, Connections, Ears

I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.

- James Badge Dale

topic: Ears, Mouths, Persons

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

- James H. Boren

source: James H. Boren (1982). “Fuzzify!: Borenwords and strategies for bureaucratic success”, Epm Pubns Inc

topic: Leadership, Looks, Ears

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Men, Research, Ears, Deaf Ears, Raleigh

It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

- James M. Barrie

topic: Book, Writing, Ears

The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

- James Mattis

topic: Enemy, Important, Ears, Usmc, Battlefields

I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

- James Nachtwey

topic: Nerves, Ears, Half