Ears Quotes · Page 104

Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.

— William Shakespeare

One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.

— David Anthony Durham

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

— Anonymous

There's something wrong with my brain, it doesn't work properly! I can hear the same pitch in both ears, whereas for most…

— Aphex Twin

Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby…

— Thomas Szasz

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Passion is what you would do if you got to choose. It's what you think about doing in the privacy of your…

— Urijah Faber

Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.

— Cassandra Clare

A bear teaches us that if the heart is true, it doesn't matter much if an ear drops off.

— Helen Exley

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

— Anais Nin

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

— John Milton

We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. To put our beliefs on…

— Lisa Delpit

For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

— William Butler Yeats

Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears…

— Jacqueline Bisset

I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.

— F. S Flint

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He took her in his arms right away. "I'm so sorry," he murmured in her ear. He rocked her, saying it over…

— Ann Brashares

I've always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16.

— Vinnie Jones

It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines,…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries…

— George Steiner

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

— Nina Fedoroff

Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was…

— Saint Augustine

... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law…

— Edward Augustus Bowles

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment.…

— Haim Ginott

He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll…

— Cornelia Funke