Quotes About Ears

I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:

Ears were blocked to reason, and eyes blocked to goodness.

And he had promised, thinking of the Muslim letter-readers who must cover their ears when they read letters for their clients, so as not to overhear the contents.

The eyes are the witness of beauty and hideosity; similarly, the ears are the witness of wisdom and stupidity.

Ginger twitched his ears and the loose skin on his back and legs to let Jerry know he was here and he was happy. Then he lowered his head down on his paws again and he let out a deep sigh that sounded almost like a sob, there was in it so much relief and pain and pleasure and remembering.

Aunt Lina said that spirits existed, but not in the places, or in the alleys, or near the ancient gates of the Vatso. They existed in people's ears, in the eyes when eyes looked inside and not out, in the voice as soon as it begins to speak, in the head when it thinks, because words are full of ghosts but so are images. Is it true, Mamma?

If I'm Colin Kaepernick I have to prove myself. I would say, 'I would love the opportunity to show that I am a championship-winning quarterback again, and I understand that I am not going to be handed anything and that I would love the opportunity to come back.' If he said that it would open the ears of a lot of teams.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.

This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. It is possible that they may be among those who understand my "Zarathustra": how could I confound myself with those who are now sprouting ears?—First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.

Now and again an echo of Chopin's music rings in my ears, and this much you absorb me that, at such moments I always think of you and lose myself in meditating about possibilities.

With the new morning, however, there came unto me a new truth: then did I learn to say: Of what account to me are market-place and populace and populace-noise and long populace- ears!

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

Just as you cannot see, at pleasure, with your ears and you cannot, at will, hear with your eyes so too you cannot make the state act in the interests of the working people. As an organ in the social body, its purpose is for the repression of self-determination.

Lincoln's jogtrot prose, compacted of words and phrases still with the bark on, had no music their ears were attuned to; it crept by them.

Hope you don't mind my taste in music. I like a little backbeat when I launch. (Devyn) Just wait until you're in battle with him. That shit'll make your ears bleed. (Sway)

Still the rain kept pouring, falling on my ears,And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the rain.

To whom shall I speak and give warning That they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed And they cannot listen. —JEREMIAH 6:10 NASB

The shadow towered, from the snake to a shape with tufted ears laid flat, a lynx.

Your enemies have neither the proof nor the backbone to stand against you, but say something often enough in vulnerable ears and incredulity turns to belief.

One reason that we have collectively plugged our ears against a decade of dismal revelations about Bill Cosby is that he made lots of Americans feel good about two things we rarely have reason to feel good about: race and gender.

Cicero calls it the most horrendous torture.' So hideous was the act of crucifixion upon a man that he also writes that the very word `cross' should be far removed not only from the person of a Roman citizen but from his thoughts, his eyes and his ears.

With the evolution of eyes came the possibility of visual ornaments. With the evolution of bird ears came the possibility of the bird song. And perhaps, with the evolution of language comprehension abilities in our ancestors, came the possibility of sexual selection for much more complicated thoughts and feelings expressed through language.

I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises," said Mr Casaubon.