Ears Quotes

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.
Miroslav Vitous

Play, Place, Used

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.
Dean Rusk

Best, Listening, Persuade

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
Dean Rusk

Best, Others, Ways

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
Bobby Jones

Between, Golf, Space

Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.
Jeff Cooper

Between, Happens, Hands

I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.
Ian Hart

Famous, Career, Done

Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I've ever done in my career, that's the only thing that's perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that's done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
Viola Davis

Everything, Career, Done

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
Nina Fedoroff

Good, Science, Advice

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.
Eugene Ormandy

Listen, Tonight

But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.
Roone Arledge

Hell, Place, Reason

The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.
Craig McCracken

Small, Reason, Nose

When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights.
Kelly Hu

Mother, Young, Used

I didn't even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most.
Rooney Mara

Hurt, Put, Four

All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don't want them to be dictated to by the media, or have preconceptions about it. If you like it, great. If you don't, fair enough.
Melanie Chisholm

Great, Enough, Themselves

I like loud music. I like music that fills my ears. I'm just going to pull out my iPod and see what we got here. We're always interested in new bands because we have a retail store in northern California. I think it's got to be happy.
Tyler Florence

Music, Happy, Here

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.
William Christopher Handy

Music, Big, Talent

All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them.
Gerald Scarfe

Children, Big, Tried

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
Albert Bandura

Powerful, Made, Why

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.
Amar Bose

Took, Sound, Audience

If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.
Sarah Paulson

Run, Promise, Sing

Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed.
Jolene Blalock

Love, Fact, Cat

We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.
James Blake

Music, Time, Live

My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.
Chrisette Michele

Good, Heart, Someone

Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears.
Juliette Gordon Low

Children, After, Put

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.
Giraldus Cambrensis

Women, Men, Together

Even the ears must dance.
Natalia Makarova

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Fire, Pretty, Rather

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.
Kieran Culkin

Eyes, Keep, Open

When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was 'Everybody Loves a Winner.'
William Bell

Writing, Down, Service

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.
Josh Bowman

Women, Men, Two

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