Ears Quotes - Page 10

• So my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of there dripping wet for all the world to see -- no matter how long it takes, no matter whose feet get stepped on in the process, no matter how much it costs, no matter how great the personal sacrifice.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sacrifice, Feet, Long

  "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray". "Playboy" Magazine, October 1965.

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• I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press.

  Theo de Raadt

  Thinking, People, Luck

  "Interview: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software". The Epoch Times, July 05, 2005.

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• The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Appreciate, Musical

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• This guy, when I met him he was 47 years old, he'd just come out of a divorce and he was, you know, very desirable. He had every Cosmo cover girl and undercover girl. They were just coming out of his ears. Baking cakes on his doorstep, one in the back door, one on the roof, one waiting in the basement, another in the elevator. So I know I have to keep an eye on him.

  Pia Zadora

  Girl, Divorce, Eye

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• But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.

  Robert Byron

  Nice

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• Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

  Aeschines

  Lying, Rumours, Penetrate

  "De Falsa Legatione" by Aeschines, 149,

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• [Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.

  George Richard Marek

  Eye, Doe, Opera

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• Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking, unfold itself inside your eyes Let its fierceness and tenderness hold you Let its vastness be undisguised in all your days.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Sleep, Eye, Vastness

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.55, Knopf

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• The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.

  Isak Dinesen

  Grieving, People, House

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• Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.

  Jim Butcher

  Spirit, Ass, Break

  "Small Favor". Book by Jim Butcher, 2008.

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• Dull indeed would be the man that did not feel the thrill awakened by the first glimpse of brilliant color in the orchard, and the cheery warbling notes borne to our ears on the first gentle breath of spring!

  Arthur Cleveland Bent

  Spring, Men, Color

  Arthur Cleveland Bent (1949). “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes”

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• The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to obey that testimony which, I believe, God bears in every human heart, however dull, to those great truths which the Bible reveals. This, and not logic, is the way to grow in religious knowledge, to know that the truths of religion are not shadows, but deep realities.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Bible, Spiritual, Religious

  John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.116

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• Now if I lived in my land, which I do, if I lived in Iceland, if I lived in Greensland I'd still have Chinese children, but out of my ears my little grey baby hears.

  Devendra Banhart

  Baby, Children, Iceland

  "Song: 'Chinese Children' ('Cripple Crow')". 2005.

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• I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do.

  Bill Cosby

  Communication, Eye, People

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• Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear

  St. Vincent

  Sleep, Your Side, Poison

  Song: Paris Is Burning

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• If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back.

  Gavin Douglas

  Eye, Doors, Envy

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• Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

  Leo Strauss

  Greatness, Democracy, Members

  Leo Strauss (1995). “Liberalism Ancient and Modern”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with contempt. Christ talked to everybody, he mingled with everybody, he shared his message with everybody, and he also loved everybody. So don't count the cost with anybody either. We don't waste our time with people who don't want what we have to offer. But if they do, one form of martyrdom is to give a listening ear or an understanding smile to all comers.

  Heather King

  Listening Ear, Names, People

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• The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase.

  Joseph Hall

  Eye, Mind, Needs

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• Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity - if we have the ears to hear.

  Marjorie Garber

  Dog, Love Is, Thinking

  Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone

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• Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town

  Tom Waits

  Ems, Towns, Professors

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• Mitt Romney, two-time Republican presidential hopeful, boxed former heavyweight champion of the world Evander Holyfield for charity. It was a horrible moment when Romney bit off Holyfield's other ear.

  David Letterman

  Two, Hopeful, Presidential

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• During a charity boxing match on Friday, Mitt Romney lasted two rounds against Evander Holyfield and raised a million dollars. It was just like Holyfield's fight with Mike Tyson, except Romney chewed off his other ear talking about his 18 grandchildren.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Friday, Fighting, Grandchildren

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• Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Putin was like, 'It wasn't Picasso, just picture of what his face would look like if he said no.' (Nose over here, eye up here, ear in forehead.)

  Jimmy Fallon

  Soccer, Eye, Russia

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• People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes
  to reverse the entire science of astronomy

  Martin Luther

  People, Giving, Wish

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