Ear Quotes

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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. — Graham Greene
Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear… — Billy Collins
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of… — A A Milne
The rose fell into his lap, and he looked up, startled. Mimi grinned. "Hey handsom" Mimi sent. "What's up?" Jack replied, without speaking. "Just thinking… — Melissa de la Cruz
The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows. — Libba Bray
But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is… — Elizabeth Gilbert
AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,… — James Russell Lowell
Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey? — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near. — Emily Dickinson
Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and… — Tom Robbins
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of… — Graham Greene
ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlÃ¨d ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone â€˜identifiedâ€™ me. Then a… — Anna Akhmatova
Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders. — Megan Whalen Turner
The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's… — Unknown Author
Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of… — Chuck Palahniuk
The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life.… — Peter Cameron
Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/… — Walt Whitman
Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need… — Terry Pratchett
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge -… — Charlotte Bronte

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