Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and… — Witold Rybczynski Copy Share Image
Let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... Give men your ear, but not… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get… — Norm Crosby Copy Share Image
Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen's… — Martin Berkeley Copy Share Image
If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The man who joins with youths stays young in heart and mind. In exchange for the gift of their vitality and eagerness,… — Henry Clausen Copy Share Image
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
I just enjoy the sound as I hear it in everything around me. The high and low frequencies of sound bewitch me.… — Sivamani Copy Share Image
Listening is an essential part of praying. Answers from the Lord come quietly-every so quietly. In fact, few hear his answers audibly… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
If you won’t marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who would… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
She leaned into my shoulder. "Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have power." I pushed her hair behind her… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit… — Gavin Douglas Copy Share Image
Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
