That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.

At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender…

— Iyanla Vanzant

“Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone, permitting articulation and bearing stress.”

— John Lennard

I never developed hard cartilage in my ears because I played with them since I was a baby. I can fold my ear entirely…

— Evangeline Lilly

“(Ear cartilage is similarly underserved by the vascular system, so if you plan on picking a fight with Mike Tyson, do practice good wound…

— Mary Roach

But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they…

— Mary Oliver

An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he…

— Anonymous

“Like I could take a nap at 4:15 p.m. and then I'll wake up twenty minutes later and have absolutely no clue where I…

— Michael Showalter

“The unhinged jaw of a nepatrox mouth—with the wide flaps to either side flapping away—greeted him through the window. The beast had climbed up…

— Jennifer Foehner Wells

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

— Lauren Oliver

I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning…

— Henry David Thoreau

Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.

— Steve Aylett

Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze,…

— Banana Yoshimoto

From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and then in…

— Paul Laffoley

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run…

— Mark Twain

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

— Anonymous