Ear Quotes

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. (Leo Buscaglia)
The passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. View quote
William Shakespeare
For no syren did ever so charm the ear of the listener, as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the syren. View quote
Henry Taylor
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. View quote
Thomas Beecham
The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear. View quote
Earl Derr Biggers
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. View quote
Judy Garland
Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear. (Emma Thompson)
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. View quote
Robert Frost
An horrible stilness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. View quote
John Dryden
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. View quote
Anne Sexton
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear. View quote
Harpo Marx
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. View quote
John Steinbeck
The stars of midnight shall be dear To her and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. View quote
William Wordsworth
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae, catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman. View quote
Vitruvius
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book a good head cannot read amiss in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have Van Gogh's ear for music. View quote
Billy Wilder
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear. View quote
Dave Barry
Ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear A simple race they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. View quote
Walter Scott