logo

Quotes About Ears

The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.
~ Bob Dylan
You idiot!" she spat, flattening her ears. "What are you doing in my territory?" "Drowning?" replied Graystripe. The silver tabby flicked her ears, and Fireheart saw a glimmer of amusement in her eyes. "Can't you drown yourself in your own territory?" Graystripe's whiskers twitched. "Ah, but who would rescue me there?" he rasped.
~ Erin Hunter
Because I was afraid she would claw my ears off if I forbade her from going
~ Erin Hunter
Because I was afraid she would claw my ears off if I forbade her from going," Bramblestar responded drily. "And I would have," Sandstorm muttered.
~ Erin Hunter
Any cat who can't hear a pigeon bouncing down a cliff needs his ears checked.
~ Erin Hunter
My wife says I'd get philosophical with a lamp post if I thought the thing had ears.
~ Etgar Keret
Só was haar ma. Spits altyd die ore. In die gesin word gesê: Ore is Ma se primêre organe. Haar hart sal al staan, dan luister sy nog. Haar pa se speelse waarskuwing: "Ma gaan ons nog eendag uit die graf afluister!
~ Etienne van Heerden
Our bodies are the means of providing our souls access to God in his revelation: eat this book. A friend reports to me that one of the early rabbis selected a different part of our bodies to make the same point; he insisted that the primary body part for taking in the word of God is not the ears but the feet. You learn God, he said, not through your ears but through your feet: follow the Rabbi.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization.
~ Thomas Watson, Jr.
Paine was understandably concerned at first that the outbreak of fighting would disrupt his new livelihood. He wrote to Franklin, "I thought it very hard to have the country set on fire about my ears almost the moment I got into it." But then he grabbed a torch.
~ Benson Bobrick
At the root of the comic there is a sort of rigidity which compels its victims to keep strictly to one path, to follow it straight along, to shut their ears and refuse to listen.
~ bergson henri ii
The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.
~ Beth Moore
Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.
~ Billie Eilish
Comment était ce Paris? Quel nom démesuré! Elle se le répétait à demi-voix, pour se faire plaisir; il sonnait à ses oreilles comme un bourdon de cathédrale, il flamboyait à ses yeux jusque sur l'étiquette de ses pots de pommade.
~ Gustave Flaubert
there being something almost goatish or animalistic about his thick lips, large-pored, yellowish skin, coarse crinkly hair, and oddly elongated ears.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
They were heading into the wooded areas of the mountains. The elevation was causing Adam's ears to clog up.
~ Harlan Coben
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
~ F. L. Lucas
It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.
~ Mo Rocca
Ears back, tail up! I got to show off the white tip on the end of my tail. It's the flag that all Shelties are proud of.
~ Sheron Long
To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.
~ Shirley Chisholm
Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.
~ George Eliot
I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did no hear it. MATTHEW 13:16–17 (NKJV)
~ Max Lucado
Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes....Sometimes ocean people are given to understand the newness and oldness of the world; then all morning they try to keep that boundless joy like a little sun inside their chests. The ocean also makes its people know immensity.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston