"I learn my songs by ear."
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"It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs."
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"The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears."
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"Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them."
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"Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]"
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"It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears."
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"Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice."
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"When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears."
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"Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed."
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"Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart."
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"You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."
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"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"
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"Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear."
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"Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship."
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"No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!"
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"The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing"
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"We transform our relationships when we listen with our ears, hearts, and souls."
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"Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced."
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"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."
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"Fair Katherine, and most fair, Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms Such as will enter at a lady's ear, And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?"
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