Ears Quotes - Page 32

• I’m the one who requires a nice scratch behind my ears, and then I’ll tap my toe, and that’ll be fine.

  Mike Pesca

  Nice, Scratches, Toes

  "'If You've Got a Good Solution, I'm Going to Steal It for a Future Answer'" by Mike Pesca and Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. July 29, 2015.

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• America has a broken spirit, that the people that are saying, "Please help me, please let me keep my home, please let me keep my car, please recognize me as a vital human being," they are falling on deaf ears.

  Suze Orman

  Fall, Home, Broken Spirit

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects.

  Daniel Lapin

  Lying, Slander, Effects

  Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2009). “Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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• Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or eventhe Elizabethan men. But what is that to the purpose? A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Men, Race

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.231, Xist Publishing

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• Mystery keeps man alive; it opens his ears, his eyes, and his mind! Find a mystery and try to solve it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Men, Mind

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• The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Eye, Woods, Fields

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1990). “Canterbury Tales”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Needs, Tough

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• What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye
  and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by ... creating
  units of intent and emphasis, and by contouring the meloding pitch
  changes in the narrative-line.

  Diane Wakoski

  Eye, Creating, Add

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• If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Drinking, Sleep

  "Waits In Wonderland". Image Magazine Interview with Rip Rense, December 13, 1992.

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• English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons.

  Karl Marx

  Years, Law, Two

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• The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, Pride, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.215, University of Georgia Press

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• We have always had dogs, and they have faithfully performed many valuable services for us, such as: 1. Peeing on everything. 2. When we're driving in our car, alerting us that we have passed another dog by barking real loud in our ears for the next 114 miles. 3. Trying to kill the Avon lady.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Real, Car

  Dave Barry (1995). “Homes and Other Black Holes”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• I like to quote the verse, "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." I kind of envision me skiing and God is kind of like an eagle right next to me screeching in my ear that everything is going to be all good. I just try my best and that's all I can ask for.

  Nick Goepper

  Eagles, Giving, Trying

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. February 2014.

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• I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear.

  John Nettles

  People, Creative, Hats

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, Brass Bands, Doe

  George Bernard Shaw (2006). “Three Plays for Puritans”, p.36, Penguin UK

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• 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.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Mouths, Speak, Enough

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• When it comes to sex, the most important six inches are the ones between the ears.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Sex, Important, Six

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• Worries typically follow such lines, a narrative to oneself that jumps from concern to concern and more often than not includes catastrophizing, imagining some terrible tragedy.  Worries are almost always expressed in the mind's ear, not its eye - that is, in words, not images - a fact that has significance for controlling worry.

  Daniel Goleman

  Eye, Worry, Mind

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.116, Bantam

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• When you close your mouth, your ears will be bigger!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mouths, Bigger

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• When you hear voices from your past, do not close your ears, listen to them, but don't stop, keep walking to the future.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Past, Voice, Walking

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• I'm looking to get better, and anything that will help me accomplish that, I'm all ears.

  Joe Mauer

  Get Better, Helping, Help Me

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• The only shortage we have today is the shortage we have between our own two ears.

  L. Tom Perry

  Two, Today, Shortage

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• The man who joins with youths stays young in heart and mind. In exchange for the gift of their vitality and eagerness, the mature of man can give guidance and trust, a sympathetic ear and helping hand.

  Henry Clausen

  Heart, Men, Hands

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• The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

  Allan Bloom

  Sirens, Enough, Danger

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

  Baroness Orczy

  Hate, Passion, Sunset

  Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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