Best eye & ears Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.”

Ifs Eye Values Wish Sound Appreciate Ears Musical Educated

Author:Jose Saramago

“This guy, when I met him he was 47 years old, he'd just come out of a divorce and he was, you know, very desirable. He had every Cosmo cover girl and undercover girl. They were just coming out of his ears. Baking cakes on his doorstep, one in the back door, one on the roof, one waiting in the basement, another in the elevator. So I know I have to keep an eye on him.”

Knows Years Eye Guy Girl Waiting Doors Mets Ears Divorce Cake Coming Out Roof Desirable This Guy Baking Basements Elevators Doorstep Back Doors Undercover Cover Girl Baking A Cake

Author:Pia Zadora

“[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.”

Littles Doe Eye Ears Opera Absurdity Imaginative

Author:George Richard Marek

“Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking, unfold itself inside your eyes Let its fierceness and tenderness hold you Let its vastness be undisguised in all your days.”

Eye Sleep Ears Silent Surprise This Day Waking Tenderness Vow Vastness Fierceness

Book:Come, Thief: Poems

Source: Come, Thief: Poems

“I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do.”

People Feels Trying Persons I Can Important Eye Audience Comedy Achieve Stage Communication Ears Important Things Contact Communication Skills Pace Tuning

Author:Bill Cosby

“If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back.”

Ifs Mind Feelings Eye Brain Doors Ears Envy Beast Lenses Constellations Corridors Envy Me

Author:Gavin Douglas

“Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!”

Eye Ears

Author:Victoria Abril

“The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase.”

Needs Mind Eye Ears Lays Busy Tongue Treasure Faster Revenue Receiver

Author:Joseph Hall

“Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Putin was like, 'It wasn't Picasso, just picture of what his face would look like if he said no.' (Nose over here, eye up here, ear in forehead.)”

Ifs World Looks Said Eye Faces Support Painting Ears Russia Cups Soccer Noses Officials Host Putin Foreheads World Cup

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.”

Feels Heart Eye Film Consequence Ears Selfish Familiarity Solicitude

Book:Lyrical Ballads

Source: Lyrical Ballads

“To impress your offer on the mind of the reader or listener, it is necessary to put it into brief, simple language...No farfetched or obscure statement will stop them. You have got to hit them where they live in the heart or in the head. You have got to catch their eyes or ears with something simple, something direct, something they want.”

Want Mind Heart Eye Language Simple Reader Offers Direct Ears Statements Listeners Impress Obscure

Author:John Caples

“children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.”

Children Made Eye Minutes Ears Observation

Book:Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

“The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.”

Eye Passion Lovers Travel Ears Blessed Senses New Eyes

Author:Anais Nin

“I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.”

Stills Eye Beautiful Imagination Beauty Opinion Expression Ears Mere Senses

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.”

Doe Eye Faces House Doors One Day Ears Meetings Senses Indifferent Thrust Piety Puritan

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.”

World Mean Whole Moments Eye Reading Voice Imagination Ability Space Company Keys Ears Mere Saint Whole World All Time Fancy Finest Sage Time And Space Sweetest Wisest Wittiest

Book:Democracy and other Addresses

Source: Democracy and other Addresses

“We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.”

Knows Way Giving Mean Self Seems Eye Earth Heaven Wish Wise Blood Worst Sorrow Highest Ears Islam Flesh Denial Vain Resignation Flesh And Blood God Is Great

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.”

Eye Youth Ears Offensive Threshold

Author:Juvenal

“Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]”

Eye Ears Discreet

Author:George Herbert

“And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.”

May Light Eye Heaven Religious Clear Mines Window Ears Blow Ecstasy Organs Sweetness Casting Choir Anthem

Author:John Milton

“For some of us, the soul is resident in the sole, and yearns ceaselessly for light and air and self-expression. Our feet are our very selves. The touch of floor or carpet, grass or mud or asphalt, speaks to us loud and clear from the foot, that scorned and lowly organ as dear to us as our eyes and ears.”

Soul Self Light Eye Speak Clear Air Feet Expression Ears Dear Loud Grass Organs Sole Mud Carpet Self Expression Residents Scorned Asphalt

Author:Barbara Holland

“The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.”

People Knows Way Writing Book Reason Eye Life Is Rooms Written Style Ears Reason Why Sentiments Good Book Vacuums Employing

Book:The collected works of Walter Bagehot

Source: The collected works of Walter Bagehot

“The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.”

Eye Ears Witness Trustworthy

Author:Herodotus

“The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd, The child is born by many a pang endear'd And now the mother's ear has caught his cry; O grant the cherub to her asking eye! He comes--she clasps him. To her bosom press'd He drinks the balm of life, and drops to rest.”

Children Moments Eye Mother Wish Born Hours Cry Drink Ears Asking Presses Caught Grants Bosoms Infancy Cherubs

Author:Samuel Rogers

“To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.”

World Mind Eye Song Lost Darkness Awareness Thousand Ears Uneducated

Author:Margaret Millar

“Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.”

Ifs Looks Doe Important Enough Feelings Eye Chance Brain Events Terrible Hundred Ears Extraordinary Privilege Woods Journalism Encounters Anguish Worms Inadequacy Feelings Of Inadequacy

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me.”

Thinking Men Heart Eye Speak Christ Mouths Ears Every Man Think Of Me Eyes That See

Author:Saint Patrick

“These visions which I saw were not in sleep nor in dreams, nor in my imagination nor by bodily eyes or outward ears nor in a hidden place; but in watching, aware with the pure eyes of the mind and inner ear of the heart.”

Mind Heart Dream Eye Imagination Sleep Vision Saws Pure Ears My Imagination

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“Your eyes are windows to your dreams; Your ears are windows to your mind; You nose is the door to your heart - you can win over any man with just your smell.”

Men Mind Heart Dream Eye Winning Doors Window Ears Smell Noses Your Dreams You Can Win

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

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