Ears Quotes - Page 23

• An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.

  William James

  Eye, Waste, Flow

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We try not to waste food in general. Because as a meat eater it's just responsible to eat as much of the animal as you can. It's also instilled in my family culture, where it's not even an ethical thing, it's just that all those parts are delicious, too. You eat the ears, you eat the intestines, you eat the livers, the hearts.

  Thu Tran

  Heart, Animal, Trying

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• Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like, "Yes, we get to go somewhere!" Go somewhere faster, with their head out the window, and their ears, like, "Yes! Yes!"

  Laurie Anderson

  Dog, Car, Window

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Listening, Mathematics, Music Is

  Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mya Tannenbaum (1987). “Conversations with Stockhausen”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A bear teaches us that if the heart is true, it doesn't matter much if an ear drops off.

  Helen Exley

  Heart, Bears, Matter

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• We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, compelling web sites. As always, we’ll keep our ears open for feedback on ways to iterate and improve our ranking algorithms toward that goal.

  Matt Cutts

  White, Creating, People

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• I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Wish, World

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• If an earthly king was to issue out a royal proclamation, on performing or not performing the conditions therein contained, the life or death of his subjects entirely depended, how solicitous would they be to hear what those conditions were? And shall not we pay the same respect to the King of kings and Lord of lords and lend an attentive ear to his ministers, when they are declaring, in his name, how our pardon, peace, and happiness may be secured?

  George Whitefield

  Kings, Names, Issues

  George Whitefield (1812). “Seventy-five Sermons on Various Important Subjects: In this Complete Collection is Included the Eighteen Sermons Taken in Short Hand by Mr. Gurney. And to which is Now Added, a Sermon of the Character, Preaching, &c. of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield”, p.412

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• For years we've been playing and writing songs that sound happy. And yet if you listen, the words are all like "My brains are falling out of my ears; would someone please pull me together?"

  Robby Takac

  Fall, Brain, Together

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

  Rebecca Pidgeon

  Eye, Challenges, Age

  "Huff Post Exclusive Music Download" by Rebecca Pidgeon, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2005.

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• I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn't compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it's my personality that these designers were drawn to.

  Lou Doillon

  Girl, Thinking, Personality

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• I have a good ear for languages.

  Harry Dean Stanton

  Language

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• Girls tend to get seduced through their ears. Guys tend to get seduced through their eyes.

  Jason Evert

  Girl, Eye, Guy

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• Perhaps it is to prepare to hear some day the music of the spheres that I am always turning my ears to the music of streams. There is indeed a music in streams, but it is not for the hurried. It has to be loitered by and imagined. Or imagined toward, for it is hardly for men at all. Nature has a patient ear. To her the slowest funeral march sounds like a jig. She is satisfied to have the notes drawn out to the lengths of days or weeks or months. Small variations are acceptable to her, modulations as leisurely as the opening of a flower.

  Wendell Berry

  Flower, Men, Funeral

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.19, Counterpoint

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• In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but a creature inhabited entirely by parasites, as a caterpillar is occupied by the grubs of the ichneumon fly. Gin, whisky, sloth, fear, guilt, tobacco, had made themselves my inquilines; alcohol sloshed about within, while tendrils of melon and vine grew out of ears and nostrils; my mind was a worn gramophone record, my true self was such a ruin as to seem non-existent, and all this had happened in the last three years.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Years, Self

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• All the donkeys I knew had small ears!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Donkey

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• There seems to be a hole in the culture where mothers went. Then, when their kids went off to school or stopped having ear infections every three weeks, they emerged from the mother zone, and like everyone else, they forgot where they'd been. Amnesia surrounding motherhood is the rule, not the exception.

  Marni Jackson

  Mother, School, Kids

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• We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous expensive journey to consult the oracle at Delphi. Today, if you want guidance, all you have to do is unplug your ears.

  Margo Kaufman

  Journey, Long, Advice

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• Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

  Hilary Hahn

  Writing, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I appreciate when people listen to the sad songs, because it's almost like telling someone your problems and having them listen with a compassionate ear.

  Jhene Aiko

  Song, People, Appreciate

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I feel like half the battle is not giving up and staying positive. If you don't have anyone in your corner or anyone in your ear, being positive helps you believe that you can get through it.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  Giving Up, Believe, Stay Positive

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• I’m the one who requires a nice scratch behind my ears, and then I’ll tap my toe, and that’ll be fine.

  Mike Pesca

  Nice, Scratches, Toes

  "'If You've Got a Good Solution, I'm Going to Steal It for a Future Answer'" by Mike Pesca and Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. July 29, 2015.

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• America has a broken spirit, that the people that are saying, "Please help me, please let me keep my home, please let me keep my car, please recognize me as a vital human being," they are falling on deaf ears.

  Suze Orman

  Fall, Home, Broken Spirit

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I feel very fortunate to have my ears. I'd share them with everybody but I only have two to go around.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Two, Share, Feels

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• We invented our computers in the '80s. We networked them together in the '90s. Now we're giving them eyes, ears and sensory organs. And we're asking them to observe and manipulate the world on our behalf.

  Esther Dyson

  Eye, Giving, Together

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