Ears Quotes
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I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light In all men's ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.
William Butler Yeats -
Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
Seneca the Younger
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From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted; and nobody knew why.
Willa Cather -
There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.
Cate Marvin -
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mine doesn't understand.
Rumi -
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 -
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.
M.C. Brockert -
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
Seneca the Younger
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I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.
Cedric Yarbrough -
In this room I have picked which gun was unloaded out of ten options. And then they pulled the trigger on me. I have picked stocks that went on to skyrocket. I have picked which pencil I would shove into Ms. Robertson’s ear until she kicked me out for thinking about it.
Kiersten White -
The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will.
William Wordsworth -
My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
Walt Whitman -
The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.
Bob Hicok -
I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.
Alasdair MacLean
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The soul has been given it's own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.
Rumi -
He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears.
Casey Abrams -
I'm kicking new flava in ya ear!
Craig Mack -
But soon the wine sack was empty, and sleep brushed my ears with her ash-lips.
Catherynne M. Valente -
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
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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 -
The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.
David Anthony Durham -
Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.
Ray Bradbury