Ear Piercing Instruments

Famous quotes containing the words ear, piercing and/or instruments:

    “These equal syllables alone require,
    Though oft the ear the open vowels tire;”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “O falling fire and piercing cry
    and panic, and a weak mailed fist
    clenched ignorant against the sky!”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it ... a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes—will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.”
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)