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Quotes About Ears

Reason is not a tyrannical God like Allah, or a bloodthirsty demon like Bhowanee; Reason does not speak in my ears but gives me ears to listen with.
~ Tabish Khair
The man is so narrow-minded his ears rub together.
~ Tami Hoag
You may glamorize snakes from the ears of King Malban and you will hear nothing from me but polite applause.
~ Tanith Lee
and Phillips, go to Staff Sergeant Pole, have him assign you to platoons." "Platoons, Gunnery Sergeant?" "Got extra food stored in your ears, Phillips?
~ Tanya Huff
Juntó las manos, separando apenas los pulgares: un perro empezó a abrir la boca en la pared y a mover las orejas.
~ Julio Cortazar
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
~ Henry Fielding
A fig for my opinion! If you fall in love with Mr. Osmond what will you care for that? Not much, probably. But meanwhile it has a certain importance. The more information one has about one's dangers the better. I don't agree to that—it may make them dangers. We know too much about people in these days; we hear too much. Our ears, our minds, our mouths, are stuffed with personalities. Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
~ Henry James
Everybody is giving birth to something - everybody but the lesbian in the upper tier. Her head is uptilted, her throat wide open; she is all alert and tingling with the shower of sparks that burst from the radium symphony. Jupiter is piercing her ears.
~ Henry Miller
A flower is symbol of beauty for eyes, but music is the expression of beauty for ears.
~ Debasish Mridha
Joy is in the ears that hear.
~ Stephen R Donaldson
Joy is in the ears that hear, not in the mouth that speaks. The world has few stories glad in themselves, and we must have gay ears to defy Despite" Foamfollower from (Lord Foul's Bane; 1977)
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.
~ Billy Collins
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.
~ William Wordsworth
I have these huge, pointed ears. They're like three times the size of Orlando Bloom's ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love my ears.
~ Evangeline Lilly
Secrets do not diminish when they are spread among many ears.
~ Brian Herbert
I say, sah! Sorry to trouble you to get off your big fat bottom and help a poor gel out! I would not have helped if you hadn't have needed it. You were doing well on your own until the vermin started trying to use trickery. Dottie bounced on her footpaws, her large ears stand up straight. I know, sah! The bally old blighters didn't know wot hit 'em! Lord Brocktree hid a smile.
~ Brian Jacques
The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.
~ Carl Hiaasen
He's probably their battle poet, too. You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles? No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.
~ Terry Pratchett
With his pinned-back ears and face suffused with strong, hard-to-read feelings, Bowie looked sleek and dangerous briefly, belying the neatness, the pampered hands.
~ Garry Disher
10Wisdom opens your heart to receive wise counsel, But pride closes your ears to advice, And gives birth to only quarrels and strife.
~ Brian Simmons
12Lovers of God have been given eyes to see with spiritual discernment and ears to hear from God.
~ Brian Simmons
Under contract!" she shouted. "Under contract!" Dawn sounded so happy, and I thought of my mother, who always distrusted loud public expressions of happiness. "Those who loudly insist on their happiness are rarely happy." Those were my mother's words. But Dawn's chanting of "Under contract!" made me also think of these words by John Calvin: "What shall we then say of chanting, which fills the ears with nothing but an empty sound?
~ Brock Clarke
How do evil, death and deception find power over the Motilone people?' I asked. "Through the ears,' Bobby answered, because language is so important to the Motilones. It is the essence of life. If evil language comes through the ears, it means death.
~ Bruce Olson
Avidum genus auricularum.
~ Bryan Sykes