Ear Quotes

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

I learn my songs by ear.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.