Ears Quotes

I once gave a girl a bloody fake ear in a Tiffany jewelry box with a letter that said, “will you Gogh to prom with me?

Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you".

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

He who has ears for hearing, let him listen

Music isn't for the eyes, it's for the ears

Even the ears must dance.

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

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

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

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

All you've got to do is keep your ears open.

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear

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.

To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.

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

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

Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.

I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.

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

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

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

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.

No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.

the title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was. ... This idea of a crown began running in my head then like a tune, and has been running a lot in it ever since.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.

Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

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

Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought.

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.

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

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew.

I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

What the world needs most is openness: Open hearts, open doors, open eyes, open minds, open ears, open souls.

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut-terin', or about them bein' off their nut.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.