Quotes About Hearing

Striking evidence of the ability of birds to hear the fine details of song involves the so-called 'sexy syllables' in canary song.

I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

don't like getting calls from lawyers. Just hearing Lewis's name, I shuddered and shrank. And this is in response to my own attorney

Thus, in regard to the ear, the next organ in importance to the eye, we are repeatedly deceived by such sounds as are imperfectly gathered up and erroneously apprehended. From the false impressions received from this organ also arise consequences similar to those derived from erroneous reports made by the organs of sight. A whole class of superstitious observances arise, and are grounded upon inaccurate and imperfect hearing.

since God's Word is living, he who listens and does not have a living response is he who has not actually heard the Word of God.

If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects share.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

But I'm not letting you off so easily. Did you hear something that I should know about?" "No," I say, suddenly feeling more self-conscious than I ever thought possible. "So, then, is this just an excuse you've devised to call me? Because, trust me when I say that you need no excuses. I love hearing from you.

A dilemma arises when the interests of these deaf adults seem at odds with those of the schoolchildren—for instance, when satisfying the wishes of the former means providing inadequate services to the latter. Some would argue that because hearing people have always controlled the definition of adequacy, that concept is invalid. Others hold that any deaf candidate is preferable to a hearing candidate for a position working with deaf children.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

hearing it. This was invitation enough. Why, my dear, you

That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.

I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

We should be biased toward action. We are trying to be a nimble and cohesive culture where people can be heard and there is openness and innovation.

I have a team who I respect immensely, so if they have opinions, I'm interested in hearing them.

She is at rest. Peace, peace, she cannot hear, Lyre or sonnet, All my life's buried here, Heap earth upon it.

hombre de la videocámara al oír el ruido.

Shoats had pushed his chair back from the table to allow himself room for the guitar, between the table edge and his belly, and was tuning it. He wore that hearing-secret-harmonies expression people wore when they tuned guitars.

I almost forgot to mention another fox I know of—a very wicked fox indeed. But you are tired of hearing about foxes now, so I won't go on.

when I heard whispering. It was as soft as snowfall, but it took over all my hearing.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Blindness is a handicap of mobility, deafness one of communication. Terrible as is loss of vision, it does not distance the blind from the sighted the way loss of hearing separates the deaf from the normal.

The average deaf person has the peripheral vision of a fish-eye lens, almost 180 degrees, and spots the tiniest movement within this range long before the average hearing person can do so. In practical terms this superior visual acuity has led some automobile insurance companies in recent years to give sizable rate discounts to deaf drivers.