Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Hickey

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

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?'

Chuck Palahniuk

Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.

Abraham Verghese

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

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

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.

Jane Smiley

Hungry ears are sharp ones.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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.

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

Jane Horrocks

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

William Shakespeare

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

Abba Eban

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

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.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I knew that they were going to be up for us trying to run the ball. At that point they were pinning their ears back. That's why you saw the big play happen, too. When they got all them guys up, somebody didn't get over in that gap where they were supposed to get, and Michael got right down the sideline.

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

J. D. Salinger

I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.

Isaac Stern

A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that happens, but I'm sure it has an inner basis that is never learned.

Isaac Watts

Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.

In order to pave the way for another refinancing rate hike in March, the ECB would need to signal that another move was on its way in one of the next two press conferences. We, therefore, shall be all ears Thursday.

Samuel Butler

I'll make the fur / Fly round the ears of the old cur.

John Piper

Put your ear to the ground of God's word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.

Martin Luther

The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious

Thelonious Monk

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being...

Patricia Briggs

Mmm, he rumbled into my ear. I thought that being married meant that I never go to bed hungry.

Plautus

Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.

Plautus

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

Jon Foreman

Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.

The mouth is not satisfied by speaking, and the ears are not satisfied by hearing.

Meg Tilly

Now I feel like one of those Rodeo riders. I'm on top of a wild horse that won't stop jumping and kicking, and it is really exciting but I grab on to his ears and his mane and I'm screaming. The result is fun, but it's also scary!