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"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"
"Grammar is a piano I play by ear."
"Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet."
"No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren."
"It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear."
"What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind."
"Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God."
"Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming."
"His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought."
"She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears."
"Well the first time I performed, my mom was like how she is now when sees me on stage – all red, smiling from ear to ear. So I don’t want to mess up, [be]cause she’s smiling. Seeing my mom happy is kind of like an overwhelming feeling."
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
"The ear is the avenue to the heart."
"My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth."
"There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since."
"Freedom begins between the ears."
