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Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
Rihanna's voice is just delicious for your ear. Sinatra had the same thing; anything he sang sounded pleasing to most people.
I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.
I just tell you what I feel. I go out there, you put a quarter on my tongue, twist my ear and I'll spit out some hit for you.
I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.
Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades.
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.
Sports and fashion move so fast that I can't possibly keep my ear to the ground. For one thing, my ear trumpet gets in the way.
I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there.
Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.
Several years ago, I had the words 'let the music set you free' tattooed behind my left ear, as it really is my mantra for life.
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
I haven't worn jewelry since one of the front teeth I had made into an earring became no longer necessary because I lost the ear.
God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.
The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.
Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.
I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
To me, Stephen Miller is like Iago whispering in the president's ear, along with John Kelly. These people are totally anti-immigrant.
Spain, must we some day tell Filipinas that thou hast no ear for her woes and that if she wishes to be saved she must redeem herself?
I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.
We did envision that some day the phone would be so small that you could hang it on your ear or even have it embedded under your skin.
I kind of always thought that I had a good ear for melodies. I think in terms of melody. I can just be walking and I'll hear a melody.
Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.
I learned quickly in the NBA that you keep one eye open at all times and one ear closed. You can't react to everything you hear or see.
I had no idea what awaited me when I took a job with CBS Records, and it was a total surprise to find I had a gift and an ear for music.
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
Between 2007 and 2016, I had a large white rabbit called WillyFred. I was happiest pressing my ear to his fur and hearing his heart beat.
You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.
It is no more irrational for the mind to take the word of the Eternal Word than for the eye to use light and for the ear to welcome sound.
The-Dream was like my diary. I would sit there and talk his ear off about all my guy situations; he would just turn my stories into songs.
I have no tattoos at all - it was a huge undertaking for me in the '80s to let my parents know I was piercing my ear when I did 'L.A. Law.'
The bohar snapper - they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear - they are much scarier than the sharks.
If you are not diverse and you are not listening to all voices and have your ear to the ground, you're not going to make the best decisions.
The gospel may not make a sow's ear into a silk purse, but it will make everybody better if they live it. I've tried it. It stands the test.
My mates will tell me they saw me in the newspaper linked to this club and that club, but to be honest it goes in one ear and out the other.
Viral infections, such as mumps, rubella and meningitis, cause inflammation of the inner ear or auditory nerve, resulting in permanent damage.
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
I don't know what caused my tinnitus, but I started to become aware of a very low ringing noise in my right ear, which is now constantly there.