Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts;… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The rose fell into his lap, and he looked up, startled. Mimi grinned. "Hey handsom" Mimi sent. "What's up?" Jack replied, without… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin.… — William Booth Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
And like I said, I didn't know him very well, but my ears perked up whenever I heard his name. I guess… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. The greater your vocabulary the more effective your writing. We… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is a great need today for all mankind to heed the plea to cease to find fault one with another. Some… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's a GIRL. It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits,… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I think when tragic things happen it is on surface. It is like the ocean. One the surface a waves and sometimes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
