Tin Ear Quotes

#1. I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.

Aristotle Onassis

#2. He was a man with a tin-ear present who dreamed of a rock-opera future.

Daniel Woodrell

#3. With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.

Adrian McKinty

#4. I see bodies as individual things.

Joni Mitchell

#5. I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

Muriel Spark

#6. Somebody goes to a soup kitchen and serves the hungry, someone goes to a prison and tries to get people to turn their lives around - those are all Christian charities. This is just another charity the way I look at it. I don't look at it as being special or different.

Ralph Sarchie

#7. But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.

John Lone

#8. You won't win if you don't begin.

Robert H. Schuller

#9. She was still going somewhere terrible, but she had a hedgehog, damnit.

T. Kingfisher

#10. I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Diane Arbus

#11. He who sneers at love will be left howling by love.

Ai Yazawa

#12. Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!

Pope Francis

#13. Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

Marianne Williamson