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“People think my friend George is weird because he wears sideburns...behind his ears. I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on them.”

People Thinking Humor Funny Behinds My Friends Ears Teeth Braces Sideburns

Author:Steven Wright

“I have learned that collaboration are everything to me. Music is a social thing. If there are no ears to hear it, it has no value. I have really loved getting input from other great musicians- like recording strings with my family or making weird synth sounds with tore nissen.”

Ifs Values Social Sound Musician Music Is My Family Ears Strings Collaboration I Have Learned Great Music Input Great Musician

Author:Oh Land

“I went to the archives to see what Dumbo work there was, not for current film, but just for my love of animation. And I couldn't believe all the artwork the guys had done to find this universal empathy to Dumbo. There was one drawing where they used his ears as a sign: "Eat at Joes!" These guys were continually searching and digging to see what that is.”

Believe Done Film Used Guy Empathy Ears Universal Currents Drawing Animation Digging Artwork Archives Dumbo

Author:Peter Sohn

“When you're acting, everything is there around you, you just have to believe that it's real. When you're standing there with a slightly grey wig on and you have a baby in your arms screaming in your ear, you can go: "Well, I guess this is what it's like!"”

Believe Wells Real Acting Baby Arms Standing Ears Grey Wigs Standing There

Author:Jim Sturgess

“There's a little thing on your shoulder called intuition and it whispers in your ear. Everyone has that, there is a voice telling you to do something. Most people ignore it - but you must listen to it. I do it every day, all day.”

People Littles Voice Ears Intuition Shoulders Little Things

Author:Ridley Scott

“These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.”

Eye Evil Despair Forgiveness Deserve Ears Finals His Eyes Pardon Gracious

Book:The poetical works of John Milton: With a memoir, and critical remarks on his genius and writings

Source: The poetical works of John Milton: With a memoir, and critical remarks on his genius and writings

“It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a "real teacher" for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano. That was the main thing.”

Trying Real Hard Teach Teacher Mom Ears Piano Your Mom

Author:Birdy

“If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.”

Ifs Kind Body Song Sex Air Stage Like You Ears Distance Having Sex

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“You read statistics all the time like, "13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa," but I think those kinds of numbers fall on deaf ears - there's so much devastation in the world, that it's a bit overwhelming for people.”

People Thinking World Kind Fall Bits Numbers Millions Risk Ears East Statistics Overwhelming Severe Deaf Drought Devastation Deaf Ears East Africa

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists in human behavior; if it exists out there then it can exist on the stage. I really try to go to a lot of concerts. A lot of live events. I just try to keep my ears really, really open.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Humans Stage Events Behavior Ears Memoir Helpful Concerts Biographies Human Behavior

Author:Jeanine Tesori

“I don't have a problem working 14 hours a day and still have ears and have a brain to mix afterwards. But I don't have the same strength to actively pursue and stay enthused about things like literature and movies and a social life - things that enhance the music, and the person.”

Persons Stills Problem Literature Social Hours Brain Ears Pursue Social Life

Author:Blake Mills

“The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.”

Way Art Happens Form Rooms Silence Magic Mystery Listening Ears Surprise Following Silence Is Invitations Listening Ear

Author:David Whyte

“The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.”

Knows Want Needs Writing Hands Eye Names Ability Knowing Color Please Ears Physics Painter Landscape Gestures Rhetoric

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound.”

Littles Ideas Courses Heaven Realizing Talking Ears Profound Clouds Expecting Inadequate Nun Opaque Uninterested

Author:Karen Armstrong

“A sloth once whispered in my ear and told me that when he is clinging to branches he closes his eyes and imagines that he's still a baby holding on to his mama.”

Stills Eye Imagine Baby Ears His Eyes Branches Imagine That Holding On Mama Clinging Sloth

Author:Ann Burton

“My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a notebook with me at all times and the only criteria for anything making it into that notebook is if it stops me in my tracks for even an instant, if it catches my eye or my ear and I just write it down.”

Ifs Knows Writing Inspiration Eye Streets Walking Ears Track All Time Instant Criteria Notebook

Author:Rita Dove

“Balding if God's way of showing you are only human... He takes the hair off your head and puts it in your ears.”

Ifs Way Humans Hair Ears

Author:Bruce Willis

“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear”

Lying Ears Prosperity Jest

Author:William Shakespeare

“All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.”

Two Used Mother White Lord Mouths Ears Dear

Author:Stephen Fry

“Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play.”

Heart Children Play Blood Ears Hostile Purses Silk Turnips

Author:John Gerstner

“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. I am satisfied that a scholar who tries to combine these parts sells his birthright for a mess of pottage; that, when the final count is made, it will be found that the impairment of his powers far outweighs any possible contribution to the causes he has espoused.”

“Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it.”

Ifs Humans Reason Done Body Today Guy Dies Courses Worst Design Ears Wake Up Died Noise Flaws Lions Truck Human Body Absolutely Nothing

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.”

Ears Purses Silk Turnips Spanish Proverb Irish Proverbs

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

“Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigour, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong.”

Long Stills Strong Sound Heard Hatred Ears Contempt Filthy Dreary Repetitive Orcs

Book:The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

“Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.”

Use Sound Quality Special Color Ears Sensitivity Thorough Nuance Guitarist Thorough Knowledge

Author:Andres Segovia

“When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.”

Ifs Done Play Pieces Ears

Author:Roger Waters

“Hungry ears are sharp ones.”

Author:Jane Smiley

“If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.”

Ifs Long Causes Water Ears Distance Ships Tubes Extremity

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.”

Years Littles Hate Taught Ears Dear Hate And Fear

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.”

Men Ideas Seems Evil Opinion Ears Fellows Reports Remarkable Fellow Man Malice Sneer

Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear.”

Ears Apples Pigs Jam Frogs Jars Toads Pears

Author:Gianfranco Zola

“Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.”

Ifs World Wells Eye Literature Sound Ears Sensitive Great Literature

Author:Donald Hall

“One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.”

People Want Believe Care Lying Ears Mark Don't Care Truth And Lies Itching Deteriorating

Author:Cal Thomas

“He who has ears for hearing, let him listen”

Author:Benedict of Nursia

“There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to Eye of the Tiger and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like "Oh, that works."”

Firsts Hands Eye Garden Ears Crowds Accidents Rings Compliment Tigers Gimmicks Hands Up Infringement

Author:Hulk Hogan

“An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.”

Way Eye Life Is Gone Waste Consequence Flow Ears Active Impression Motor Incomplete Pupils Active Life

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“We try not to waste food in general. Because as a meat eater it's just responsible to eat as much of the animal as you can. It's also instilled in my family culture, where it's not even an ethical thing, it's just that all those parts are delicious, too. You eat the ears, you eat the intestines, you eat the livers, the hearts.”

Trying Heart Culture Animal Waste My Family Ears Responsible Meat Ethical Delicious Liver Intestines

Author:Thu Tran

“Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like, "Yes, we get to go somewhere!" Go somewhere faster, with their head out the window, and their ears, like, "Yes! Yes!"”

Reason Bigs Dog Car Window Ears Admire Faster

Author:Laurie Anderson

“Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.”

Listening Music Is Ears Mathematics

Book:Conversations with Stockhausen

Source: Conversations with Stockhausen

“We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, compelling web sites. As always, we’ll keep our ears open for feedback on ways to iterate and improve our ranking algorithms toward that goal.”

People Way Want Goal White Focus Creating Ears Hats Engines Compelling Site Feedback Algorithms Ranking Search Engine Optimization

Author:Matt Cutts

“I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.”

World Heart Wish This World Return Amount My Heart Ears

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“If an earthly king was to issue out a royal proclamation, on performing or not performing the conditions therein contained, the life or death of his subjects entirely depended, how solicitous would they be to hear what those conditions were? And shall not we pay the same respect to the King of kings and Lord of lords and lend an attentive ear to his ministers, when they are declaring, in his name, how our pardon, peace, and happiness may be secured?”

Source: Seventy-five Sermons on Various Important Subjects: In this Complete Collection is Included the Eighteen Sermons Taken in Short Hand by Mr. Gurney. And to which is Now Added, a Sermon of the Character, Preaching, &c. of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield

“For years we've been playing and writing songs that sound happy. And yet if you listen, the words are all like "My brains are falling out of my ears; would someone please pull me together?"”

Together Fall Brain Please Ears

Author:Robby Takac

“We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.”

Eye Age Challenges Ears Distraction Chatter

Author:Rebecca Pidgeon

“I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn't compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it's my personality that these designers were drawn to.”

Thinking Bigs Girl Personality Ears Noses Designer

Author:Lou Doillon

“Girls tend to get seduced through their ears. Guys tend to get seduced through their eyes.”

Eye Guy Girl Ears

Author:Jason Evert

“Perhaps it is to prepare to hear some day the music of the spheres that I am always turning my ears to the music of streams. There is indeed a music in streams, but it is not for the hurried. It has to be loitered by and imagined. Or imagined toward, for it is hardly for men at all. Nature has a patient ear. To her the slowest funeral march sounds like a jig. She is satisfied to have the notes drawn out to the lengths of days or weeks or months. Small variations are acceptable to her, modulations as leisurely as the opening of a flower.”

Men Sound Week Flower Months Ears Notes Patient Satisfied Opening Streams Length March Funeral Spheres Acceptable Variation

Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but a creature inhabited entirely by parasites, as a caterpillar is occupied by the grubs of the ichneumon fly. Gin, whisky, sloth, fear, guilt, tobacco, had made themselves my inquilines; alcohol sloshed about within, while tendrils of melon and vine grew out of ears and nostrils; my mind was a worn gramophone record, my true self was such a ruin as to seem non-existent, and all this had happened in the last three years.”

“All the donkeys I knew had small ears!”

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There seems to be a hole in the culture where mothers went. Then, when their kids went off to school or stopped having ear infections every three weeks, they emerged from the mother zone, and like everyone else, they forgot where they'd been. Amnesia surrounding motherhood is the rule, not the exception.”

Seems Kids School Mother Culture Three Week Ears Motherhood Holes Zone Exception Infection Amnesia

Author:Marni Jackson