Ear Quotes
1176 quotes by 860 authors
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I just want to let you know that when I look into my future, I see nothing but you.†That’s what Chaz had whispered in…
— Meg Cabot
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Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do…
— Tara Bray Smith
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Thanks, Dad," she whispered in his ear. Then recovering her composure, she knelt before him and said, "I give thanks, my Father. May your decision…
— Stuart Hill
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and…
— Virginia Woolf
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Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's…
— Joseph Campbell
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Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And…
— Unknown Author
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Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.
— Augusten Burroughs
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Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago…
— Jodi Picoult
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I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this…
— Mark Haddon
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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or…
— William Cowper
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I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time…
— Stephen King
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He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could…
— James Joyce
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Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace…
— Andrew Sean Greer
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He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!"…
— Cornelia Funke
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...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured…
— James Agee
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And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a…
— Edmond Rostand
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Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two…
— Janet Fitch
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