Ears Quotes

I like my hair long because I have really big ears.

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.

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.

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

I learn my songs by ear.

It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.

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

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice.

Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

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.

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

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

All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself and grunting, but that was nothing new.)

Dreams like podcast. Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff.

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

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!

It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.

Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.

Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!

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

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

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

Temptation hath a music for all ears.

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.

The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.

Ay Rios, you want to fight at 140? We can fight at 140. You're chubby, I just seen you in Vegas, you were chubby, your ears were chubby.