Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epictetus

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

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?

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

Juicy J

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

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.

We need eyes and ears on the ground for things we can't do ourselves.

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.

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

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.

Chaz Bono

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

William Shakespeare

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

Benjamin Franklin

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

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.

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.

Bryant H. McGill

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

Jane Horrocks

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

Jane Smiley

Hungry ears are sharp ones.

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

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

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

He'll reach up and take one of those big old floppy ears and he'll say, 'I can't hear you,' and they'll start that all over again.

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

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

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.'

Michael Williams

He has big ears and he's real skinny. People like to pick on him. It was like that as long as I could remember.

Abraham Verghese

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

Douglas Adams

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

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?'

Alexander Pope

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.

Jason Aldean

My producer, Michael Knox, he's kind of my eyes and ears on Music Row. While I'm out on the road, he's looking for songs, and then he and I will get together and go over songs.