Ear Quotes

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.

I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

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

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.

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

I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!.

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

I didn't even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most.

The body's like a huge ear. It's as simple as that.

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.

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

I have a pretty good ear.