Best ears & should Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)

“A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.”

Ifs Way Should Sometimes Able Young Teaching Taste Capacity Ears Horse Leaving Opening Pace Instruction Pupils Pouring Accommodate Lad Tutor

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.”

Should Ears Tongue Former Latter Good Will Slander

Author:Plautus

“A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.”

Men Should Mind Running Race Ears Terror

Book:Virginibus Puerisque

Source: Virginibus Puerisque

“Wildness was ever sounding in our ears, and Nature saw to it that besides school lessons some of her own lessons should be learned, perhaps with a view to the time when we should be called to wander in wildness to our heart’s content.”

Should Heart School Views Saws Lessons Ears Wander Wildness

Book:The Wilderness Journeys

Source: The Wilderness Journeys

“Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.”

Needs Should Ears Talkers

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.”

Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825

“Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.”

Should Earth Lying Dies Fall Tears Proud Sorrow Fame Mountain Ears Shame Tales Warrior Aliens Dumb Fallen Insult Woe Foe Scorn Solemn Bleeding Hush Heathen Haughty

Author:William Somervile

“Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does his pack; But, as the pedler overpress'd Unloads upon a stall to rest, Or, when he can no longer stand, Desires a friend to lend a hand, So Atlas, lest the ponderous spheres Should sink, and fall about his ears, Got Hercules to bear the pile, That he might sit and rest awhile.”

Should Doe Hands Might Desire Song Fall Strong Sky Bears Ears Ancient Tall Spheres Bores Packs Atlas

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“To live sanely in Los Angeles ... you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in your ear what you should desire, what you should fear, what you should wear and eat and drink and enjoy, what you should think and do and be.”

Thinking Should Art Desire Enjoy Voice Forever Drink Ears Radio Newspapers Awake Demon Staying Los Angeles Suggestions Whispering Billboards Hypnotic

Book:Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses

Source: Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses

“My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.”

Should Eye Reader Ears Judged Listeners

Author:Arnold Schoenberg

“The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to obey that testimony which, I believe, God bears in every human heart, however dull, to those great truths which the Bible reveals. This, and not logic, is the way to grow in religious knowledge, to know that the truths of religion are not shadows, but deep realities.”

Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

“Christians should not be hostile, they should not hate, they should not judge, and they should not condemn. But they also must not shy away from real Truth and real Christianity. Just because so many have “itching ears” and “will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions” does not mean Christians should be willing to scratch that itch.”

Should Mean Doe Real Christian Hate Passion Christianity Teacher Willing Judging Ears Suits Shy Hostile Scratches Real Truth Itching Real Christianity

Author:Erick Erickson

“All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.”

Thinking Should Mind Wells Persons Important Position Ears Treated Poison Subordinates Susceptible Patron Animosity Provoked Important Person

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears. [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]”

Should Ears Tongue Former Latter Gossip Good Will Slander

Author:Plautus

“In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.”

Should Mind Ears

Author:Marianne Moore

“None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, "Do not magnify the imperfections of others.”

Should Reason Voice Perfect Ears Charity Imperfection Heed

Book:Behind The Scenes

Source: Behind The Scenes

“God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.”

Should Mouths Ears

Author:Eugene O'Neill

“I, too, am deeply concerned with an overarching idea that dramaturgs are now authors . . .. I am not taking the position that all dramaturgs own copyright, deserve special billing credit, or should receive remuneration akin to that of the playwright. I know from my ears at the Dramatists Guild that almost everyone a writer encounters has suggestions of how to write and rewrite the play or musical to make it work.”

Knows Should Writing Ideas Play Special Position Deserve Concerned Ears Musical Credit Crafts Encounters Suggestions Playwright Copyright Guilds Remuneration Billing

Author:Dana Rosemary Scallon

“so long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?”

Men Needs Should Believe Long Evil Ears Doctrine Vicious Clergy

Author:Anne Roe

“It would truly be a fine thing if men suffered themselves to be guided by reason, that they should acquiesce in the true remonstrances addressed to them by the writings of the learned and the advice of friends. But the greater part are so disposed that the words which enter by one ear do incontinently go out of the other, and begin again by following the custom. The best teacher one can have is necessity.”

Ifs Men Should Writing Reason Greater Teacher Advice Fine Ears Following Customs Best Teacher Begin Again Fine Things

Author:Francois de la Noue

“So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.”

World Should Different Humor Eye Heaven Religious Doubt Heard Angel Deserve Ears Tempted Syllables

Author:Martin Luther

“I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.”

Should Truth Hours Laughing Ears Clock Afterlife Sober Mock Mummy

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”

Should Sound Music Generations Style Ocean Ears My Time Capture Mud Annoyance

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“God forbid I should be the last one to criticize, but I think may be Howard Dean has a bit of a problem because earlier today during a debate in New Hampshire, he bit off Joe Lieberman's ear.”

Thinking Should May Problem Today Lasts Bits Ears Debate Criticize Dean Hampshire New Hampshire

Author:David Letterman

“If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?”

“It seems unbelievable that a man should perish in whose favor Christ said to His Mother: 'Behold thy son', provided that he has not turned a deaf ear to the words, which Christ addressed to him: 'Behold thy Mother.'”

Men Should Said Seems Christian Mother Christ Son Holy Ears Favors Unbelievable Deaf Deaf Ears Holy Mary

Author:Robert Bellarmine

“There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.”

Should Differences Ears Prose

Author:Cate Marvin

“I'm not a lawmaker, but I was thinking that if you have a really loud ring tone, maybe you should be stabbed in the ear?”

Ifs Thinking Should Ears Rings Loud Tone Melody Lawmakers

Author:Demetri Martin

“When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. You see, art is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I'm called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.”

Should Art Real Use Style Scene Photography Art Is Ears Murder Police Photographer Useless Distinction Subtle Sophisticated Documents Documentaries

Book:Walker Evans and Jane Ninas in New Orleans, 1935-1936

Source: Walker Evans and Jane Ninas in New Orleans, 1935-1936

“For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.”

Men Should Mind Age Ears Rings Old Age Civilized Really Great

Author:William E. Gladstone

“I try to have an open ear, but at the end, it would never change direction to where I think I should go. Because if I listened to everybody else, they're thinking about what's right now or what was the last thing - they're not thinking about what's next.”

Ifs Thinking Should Trying Ends Lasts Next Right Now Ears Never Change

Author:Paul Weller

“By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.”

World Should Stupid Listening Ears Around The World Great Music

Author:Gene Simmons

“I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.”

Thinking Should Wells Book Eye Left Imagination Brain Music Is Ears

Author:David Gilmour

“I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.”

People Thinking Should Years Persons Fall Teaching Right Now Ears Intelligent Agree Oppression Oppressed Sympathetic Relieved Intelligent Person

Author:Malcolm X

“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.”

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“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.”

Should Passion Situation Horror Ears Painful Violent Charm Rock N Roll Disgusting Nevertheless

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.”

Should Eye Majors Ears Contemporary Composer

Author:Camille Paglia

“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”

Should Writing Eye Creative Seeing Ears Paint Architecture Painter His Eyes

Book:A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein

Source: A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein

“Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.”

Should Heart Long Doe Felt Prayer Praying Speech Ears Humble Loud Ministers Servant Throat Organs Weary Lungs Petitions Heart Felt

Author:Ellen G. White

“If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.”

Ifs World Should Found Violence Amount Ears Injustice Oppression Phrases Hospitals Offended Howl

Author:Stephen Fry

“Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.”

Should Humans Long Doe Pain Energy Sound Space Music Cases Forever Cutting Fields Sweet Goes On Ears Notes Wave Patterns Barriers Cosmic Barrels Bounce

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.”

Thinking Should Said Play Directors Ears Heavy Managers Casting Casting Directors

Author:Albert Brooks

“What were you two talking about?" she whispered as Wes pulls the door shut. Nothing," I said. "Running." You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.”

Should Said Two Running Faces Talking Doors Should Have Ears Hot Breaths Your Face

Author:Sarah Dessen

“[Fireheart] was interrupted by a screech from Cloudtail. "Fireheart! Fireheart, Brightpaw isn't dead!" Fireheart spun around and raced across the clearing to crouch beside Brightpaw. Her white-and-ginger fur, which, she had always kept so neatly groomed, was spiky with drying blood. On one side of her face the fur was torn away, and there was blood where her eye should have been. One ear had been shredded, and there were huge claw marks scored across her muzzle.”

Should Has Beens Eye Faces Sides White Blood Huge Should Have Ears Mark Her Eyes Torn Should Have Been Fur Interrupted Claws Clearing Spun Ginger Muzzle

Author:Erin Hunter

“i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any--lifted from the no of all nothing--human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)”

Source: AnOther E.E. Cummings

“I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.”

Thinking Men Should Eye Opinion Pieces Mines Expression Ears Annoyed

Book:A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition

Source: A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition

“Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee. 'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling.”

Should Stills Feelings Eye Faces Moving Left Ears Breaths Smell Invisible Thee Touching Sensible Inward Should I Deaf Bereft

Book:Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southhampton

Source: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southhampton

“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.”

“Sable hair bisected his pecs and arrowed down to the straight and unequivocal statement of his returned interest. Forcing my gaze to his face, I said, "I really don't think we have time for that." "You know that, and I know that, but HE doesn't believe it." "Believe it," I told HIM. J.X.'s mouth tugged into one of those heart-stopping smiles. "Maybe you should whisper in his ear.”

Thinking Knows Should Believe Heart Said Faces Interest Hair Mouths Ears Statements Stopping Unequivocal

Author:Josh Lanyon

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