Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

William Shakespeare

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

Abba Eban

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Benjamin Franklin

Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.

Diane Cilento

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

Desiderius Erasmus

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

Jane Horrocks

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

Kevin Henkes

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

When he hit the wire, his ears went up and he wanted to shut down. He's still immature.

We hope to sell around 1,500 ears of corn.

Bruce Weber

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.

Alexander Smith

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Abraham Verghese

In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

We want to hear from the public. They are our eyes and ears in the marketplace.

Epictetus

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

Lucius Accius

Not at all do I trust augurs, who enrich the ears of others, so that they can enrich their own homes with gold.

Jane Smiley

Hungry ears are sharp ones.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you into trouble.

Now, who shall arbitrate? / Ten men love what I hate, / Shun what I follow, slight what I receive; / Ten who in ears and eyes / Match me: we all surmise, / They this thing, and I that: whom shall my soul believe?

Bryant H. McGill

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

Andrae Crouch

I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.' About five minutes later, my ears popped, and I saw everybody in slow motion. Nobody knew what I was experiencing.

Douglas Adams

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

Chuck Palahniuk

Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.

Alexander Pope

To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

Desmond Tutu

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'

Dave Attell

I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.

Corey Taylor

My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.

Dave Hickey

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

DAVID FEHERTY

Worst haircut I've ever seen in my life. And I've had a few bad ones. It looks like he (John Daly) has a divot over each ear.

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

What you are doing rings so loudly in my ears that I can't hear what you're saying.

Jill McCorkle

I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all the novels you'll encounter.'