Ears quotes
840 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; life is recognizing the coming of the Lord"
"The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list."
"Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded."
"I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness."
"Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still."
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"Gender is between your ears and not between your legs."
"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."
"Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself."
"It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears."
"I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes."
"No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance."
"Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?"
"You're short on ears and long on mouth."
"There is music in all things, if men had ears."
"My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more."
"Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears."
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."
"Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears."
"Princes have big ears which hear far and near."
"The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time."
"Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know."
"Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur."
"The belly has no ears."
"we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally"
