[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.
The boogeyman sleeps on your side of the bad Whispers in my ear :"Better of Dead" Fills my dreams with sirens and lights of regret Kisses me gently when i wake up in a sweat "boo!
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
I think I have a pretty good ear. I mean, even just starting with, like, Austin Powers, where I did young Robert Wagner. People were, like, "How do you imitate Robert Wagner? What does he sound like? What does that even involve?".
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams on the same note. I'd tested her before I burnt the library, and our piano along with it. Rose screams on the note B flat. We don't need a piano anymore now that we have a human tuning fork.
The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.
Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice.
It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.
I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.
I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like, waiting for the storm before you came and kneeled in the water? It was nothing. Watch after you leave the water, now cold and regretful, miles from home, certain of the belt on your backside, the cold shoulder, the extra chores; watch. Watch the water heal itself of your presence--not to repair injury but to offer itself again should you care to risk another strapping [. . . ].
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
The tip no jewel needs to wear: The tip is jewel of the ear.
A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other