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"Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil."
"You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know."
"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."
"But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice."
"Now, I don’t want any of you youngsters to worry — you’ll still have your Potions master when I’m through with him, never fear!” “Wouldn’t it be good if they finished each other off?” Ron muttered in Harry’s ear."
"Listening is an essential part of praying. Answers from the Lord come quietly-every so quietly. In fact, few hear his answers audibly with their ears. We must be listening carefully or we will never recognize them."
"Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears."
"Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater."
"[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears."
"Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body."
"[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father."
"When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child."
"Balding if God's way of showing you are only human... He takes the hair off your head and puts it in your ears."
"To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road."
"The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears."
"Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!"
"Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead."
"Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts."
"A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter."
"Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices."
