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Quotes About Ears

One of the most important things you need when you're doing big shows, like Rock in Rio, is consistency, and that starts with the sound in your ears. If it isn't just right, it throws you off and makes it hard to focus on the music and the performance.
~ Tony Kanal
I'll make the furFly 'bout the ears of the old cur.
~ Samuel Butler
Does it hurt in your ears, sir, or in your soul?
~ Sophocles
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; they have ears, but they do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths. Those who make them become like them, so do all who trust in them' (Psalm 135:15-18;
~ John Piper
Before Lydia and I could make it to the car, that keening I'd hoped to never hear again began to shred the night air, rising in pitch beyond the range of human ears.
~ Ellen Datlow
Ever since I was born"—that since has a resonance so dreadful to my ears it becomes unendurable.
~ Emil Cioran
Fear is a rushing sound, like water, in my ears.
~ Barbara Haworth-Attard
A youngish woman of about thirty-five who had come in to shelter froma heavy shower of rain, pricked up her ears and looked away from the book she had not been reading. To realize that two men could apparently be quarrelling almost publicly over a woman in this unchivalrous age sent her on her way with new hope.
~ Barbara Pym
Mumford & Sons have really opened up everyone's ears to music with instruments again, acoustic-based music... it's reassuring for people like me who have been brought up on acoustic guitar.
~ Ben Howard
There are just huge benefits to come from designing for the ears in our health care.
~ Julian Treasure
My hearing is usually O.K.
~ Lemmy
My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.
~ Butch Trucks
A voice that to Dominica's fancy seemed to hold all the sunshine and the salt wind of fine days at sea smote her ears.
~ Georgette Heyer
After all, when one approaches Middle Age… Middle Age? Has anyone ever boxed your ears Miss Thane? No, never, said Miss Thane, looking blandly up at him. You have been undeservedly fortunate, said Sir Tristram grimly.
~ Georgette Heyer
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.
~ St. Vincent
Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left.
~ Marshall McLuhan
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions." 2 Timothy 4:3
~ Mary A Kassian
If this world were populated with really thinking beings, it would be impossible for all kinds of noise to be permitted and given such unlimited scope, even the most terrible and purposeless. But if nature had intended man for thinking, she would not have given him ears, or at any rate would have furnished them with air-tight flaps, as with bats whom for this reason I envy.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
We do not live but a quarter part of our life—why do we not let on the flood—raise the gates—& set our wheels in motion—He that hath ears to hear let him hear. Employ your senses." (HENRY DAVID THOREAU, 1851)70
~ Jonathan Haidt
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
~ Eric Hoffer
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
~ Erich Segal
You idiot!" She spat, flattening her ears. "What are you doing in my territory?" "Drowning?" Replied Graystripe.
~ Erin Hunter
You idiot!" She spat, flattening her ears. "What are you doing in my territory?" "Drowning?" Replied Graystripe. "Can't you do that in your own territory?" "Ah, but who would rescue me there?
~ Erin Hunter
didn't need to stay on the ground like an apprentice with kit-fluff still behind his ears.
~ Erin Hunter