Ear Quotes

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For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shoutingâ€”that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and… — Wyndham Lewis
For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; Lord of… — Folliott Sandford Pierpoint
If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi. — Fred Beck
You think a student leaves each week because they are out of the academy. This is just a cover up to hide serious injury that… — David Sneddon
I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. — John Milton
The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear. — Ronald Reagan
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and perfumed, and the… — Henry David Thoreau
There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming… — John Chancellor
Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear. — William Cowper
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. — William Shakespeare
There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear. — Andrei Gromyko
I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye;… — Wallace Stevens
I think my favorite monster movie is "Gone With the Wind", because it has that ear monster and that big-dress monster. — Jack Handey
I wish scientists would come up with an ear of corn that was big and round, because then when you were eating it, it'd be… — Jack Handey
If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the… — Sean O'Casey

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