The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We won't be having an affair." I stare dumbly, certain I just heard an organ in my body crack in my chest.… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
All too often, parents and kids struggle to find an empathetic ear when confronting bullying situation; these escalate and too often result… — Lee Hirsch Copy Share Image
All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image