Ear Quotes

1176 Ear quotes by 833 unique authors

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me,… — Umberto Eco
Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don't… — Walt Disney
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound… — Gustave Flaubert
...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold… — Stanley Kunitz
First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your… — Christopher Paolini
And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like… — Sarah Dessen
... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the… — Dean Koontz
As the Brotherhood got down to business, he found himself putting his hand on the dog’s big head and stroking the soft fur…playing with an… — J R Ward
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. — John Steinbeck
His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me… — Kim Harrison
The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book… — Annie Dillard
Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. — Jean Cocteau
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute. — Stephen King
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. — William Shakespeare
His lips slid over her ear. "My mind shares yours. If you're determined to go through with this, then know whatever this takes you, you… — Christine Feehan
Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it… — Sloane Crosley
A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear. — William Shakespeare
I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you… — Diana Gabaldon
You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and… — Joyce Maynard
For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where… — Ray Bradbury
Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn. — Sara Gruen
He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them… — Cassandra Clare
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.… — Theodore Roethke
What were you two talking about?" she whispered as Wes pulls the door shut. Nothing," I said. "Running." You should have seen your face," she… — Sarah Dessen

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