Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Nelson

We're a watchdog group that has become the eyes and ears of where the tax money is going in Walton County. We spend a lot of time, through volunteer efforts, to analyze budgets, analyze expenditures and try to look at different government programs to see if there's an actual justification of benefit back to the taxpayer.

William Shakespeare

Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.

Chris Cleave

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

Chris Brown

Well the first time I performed, my mom was like how she is now when sees me on stage – all red, smiling from ear to ear. So I don’t want to mess up, [be]cause she’s smiling. Seeing my mom happy is kind of like an overwhelming feeling.

Chief Joseph

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Charles Lamb

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.

Charles Lamb

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Charlaine Harris

I love him," I said, but even to my own ears I didn't sound happy about it.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Charles Ives

I don't write music for sissy ears.

William Shakespeare

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

William Shakespeare

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

William Shakespeare

Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.

We are happy to get great technology from anywhere, and we have eyes and ears that are checking out companies all over.

Steven Wright

Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.

Kurt Vonnegut

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

William Shakespeare

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.

William Shakespeare

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.

William Shakespeare

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

Camille Paglia

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

Catherynne M. Valente

Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

Carl Hiaasen

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

Calvin Trillin

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

Elizabeth I

Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

Eli Roth

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

Ashleigh Brilliant

There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.

Bruce Springsteen

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

Brian Setzer

I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.

Brian Tracy

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

Brian Jacques

Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Jane Horrocks

I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

Jane Hirshfield

Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking, unfold itself inside your eyes Let its fierceness and tenderness hold you Let its vastness be undisguised in all your days.