Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think my friend George is weird because he wears sideburns...behind his ears. I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Out of nowhere, Valek appeared before me, yelling in my ear, shaking my shoulders. Stupidly, belatedly, I realized he was the drunk.… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
In my Lifetime, I hope to develop, Arms that are strong, Hands that are gentle, Ears that will listen, Eyes that are… — Javan Copy Share Image
Formula One is a mind game, no question. You have to think so hard sometimes smoke comes out your ears! And if… — Mika Hakkinen Copy Share Image
one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Unless the Holy Ghost blesses the Word, we who preach the gospel are of all men most miserable, for we have attempted… — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
What about your freedom?" he whispered in her ear over a minute later, bracing his hands palms down on the wall beside… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something about hypochondria: It's a pernicious, undermining little demon. It won't kill you, but it will sap the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If only we know, boss, what the stones and rain and flowers say. Maybe they call-call us-and we don't hear them. When… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I wasn't altered by the things that come with success but as you go about it those things play a part. You… — Mic Geronimo Copy Share Image
They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who… — George Iles Copy Share Image
The idea of a star being born is bushwa. A star is created, carefully and cold-bloodily, built up from nothing, from nobody.… — Louis B. Mayer Copy Share Image
Nikolai stroked her cheek, then wrapped her in his embrace. “You’re safe,” he said tenderly beside her ear. “I’ve got you, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them.… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
I think I have a pretty good ear. I mean, even just starting with, like, Austin Powers, where I did young Robert… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for… — Nanao Sakaki Copy Share Image
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Freedom is the slogan which speaks to the ears of people who feel strong enough to manage on their own using their… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us...She had an ear for talent...the Whisky was… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"…I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
That strain again! It had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall,… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I would think that the drumstick is probably pretty good. Because you can put that anywhere. If you are a strong guy,… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
![“Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.” quote by Chinua Achebe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d3/chinua-achebe-781_alive_mosquito-had-asked-ear-to-marry-him-wher_2395639.jpg)
